PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tiger Woods, Sigmund Freud, Hemostasis

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Characteristics of motivation: an inferred construct, presumed to be an intervening variable essential for performance, temporary and fleeting, in contrast with learning. Need (food, water) (cid:224) drive (hunger, thirst) (cid:224) drive-reducing behavior (eating, drinking) Psychodynamic theory: sigmund freud saw two basic human instincts (sex and aggression, we have aggression instincts and we have to find a outlet for our aggression, we have to discharge our aggression. Intraphychic conflicts & unconscious instincts, needs, wishes drive-reducing behaviour . Harry harlow showed that attachment (love) is a primary need just like physiological needs. These needs are not wrong, but what is wrong is the notion of hierarchy. Congruent selves: large discrepancy between real self and ideal self, self-actualization would be difficult, demotivating, less discrepancy between real and ideal self, self-actualization more attainable, motivating. If the probability of success is 50%, it particularly energizes humans.