PSYC 4750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Facial Expression, Emotion Classification, Music Appreciation
11 Dec 2016
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Instincts: inherited impulses that result in specific patterns of behaviour: not influenced by learning, have associated survival value, species-typical behaviour: behaviours exhibited by all members of a species, innate, are released or activated by a stimulus. Love invented to solve he commitment problem (leaving for a more attractive alternative), staying loyal means better chance of survival and better survival for offspring. Drive concept (woodworth: mechanism: how we do something or means by which an act is performed, drive: stimulus that induced behaviour and keeps behaviour going (even in absence of the stimulus) Incentives: external stimuli that attract or repel: example: tolman & honzik rats + maze more incentive = less errors, less incentive = more errors, provide food = decrease in errors, remove food = errors increase. Motivation depends on both internal and external sources: e. g. hunger and food combine to motivate behaviour, drive and incentives match up incentives pull, drive pushes.
