PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Konrad Lorenz, Clark L. Hull, The Human Instinct
8 Feb 2014
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How is motivation measured? (dip: direction (i. e. choices, deliberate approach or avoidance of activities, selection of outcomes worthy of effort, degree of task difficult selected. Intensity: persistence, the degree of energy, enthusiasm, and effort displayed, measured by perceived level of effort or physiological arousal, commitment to choices illustrates motivations to fulfill a certain goal, continual effort following frustration/goal-blockage. Mechanistic approach to explain motivation: mechanistic approach focuses more on human instinct and primal needs and drives. It explains human behaviour and motivation as innate responses based on something from the environment. Internal forces: instincts & evolution, drive-reduction theory, psychodynamic theory, and. Clark hull: american psychologist who was driven to try and explain psychological theory using mathematical terms. Konrad lorenz: studied animal behavior and was able to project his findings on humans. Incentive values: thorndike"s law of effect theory: thorndike"s law of effect theory:
