PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Human Sexual Activity, Anabolic Steroid, Binge Eating
10 Sep 2018
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Identify factors underlying eating behaviours and eating disorders. Know techniques used to detect lying and whether they are valid or not. Motivation: general term for a group of phenomenon that affect the nature strength and persistence of a individual"s behaviour. Extrinsic motivation (performance motive): participating in an activity to gain reward. Intrinsic motivation (mastery motive): participating in activity for its own sake. Drive theory: behaviours are caused by fulfilling biological needs or (cid:498)drives(cid:499) Cons: behaviours doesn"t always occur to satisfy biological needs alone. Modern technology gives us more leisure and less exercise. Bulimia: food deprivation, regular binge eating and purging. Anorexia: chronic under-eating, fear of weight gain, denial of consequences of starvation. Depression, anxiety, because of not living up to a difficult standard. Interviewed thousands of people regarding their sexual behaviours. Motives for sex are highly complex in humans. Sexual orientation appears to be determined prior to adolescence/ any hetero or homo activity.
