PSYC 4750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Orgasm, Information Processing, Insular Cortex

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4750
• Professor: Erin Rock

Document Summary

Note: oral presentation should focus more on the results section. Motivated = move into action or decide on change in action/behavior. Action/behavior is induced by internal motives or environmental incentives. Motive: internal disposition to be concerned with and approach positive incentives and avoid the negative ones. (ex: needs, cognition, and emotions) Incentive: anticipated reward or aversive event, environmental stimulus that attracts or repels you. (ex: money for approach behavior) Motives push a person into action toward an end-state. Incentives pull a person toward an end state. Ex: earning a degree helps a person attend class. Emotion: a universal multi-channeled reaction by which a person copes with a stimulus change. Anger is for coping with a blocked goal. Those that involved physiological changes that make our behavior possible and can influence our thought processes as well. Motivation means to anticipate the end of a journey for satisfying a need or achieving a goal.