PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Utto, Homeostasis, Circular Reasoning

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Mark Lam

Document Summary

Modulation of behavioral responses: suppression of emotional expression. Example: boss walks in, try to smile and suppress frustration at them. Modulation of physiological responses: exercise, biofeedback, sitting and trying to calm down heartrate, drug and alcohol, mediation and toga. Process that influences the direction, persistence, and vigor of goal directed behavior. Instinct theory & evolutionary psychology: drive theory. Dar(cid:449)i(cid:374)"s theor(cid:455) of e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374) i(cid:374)spired earl(cid:455) ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hologi(cid:272)al (cid:448)ie(cid:449)s that i(cid:374)sti(cid:374)(cid:272)ts (cid:373)oti(cid:448)ate much of our behaviour. An instinct is an inherited predisposition to behave in a specific and predictable way when exposed to a particular stimulus: genetic, universal within species, not learning dependent, survival value. Example: thi(cid:374)k of a sku(cid:374)k: does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)atter (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h o(cid:374)e, the(cid:455) just spray you (instinct that all skunks do) Because most people are: does(cid:374)"t e(cid:454)plai(cid:374) (cid:862)(cid:449)h(cid:455) (cid:449)e hit the s(cid:374)ooze (cid:271)utto(cid:374)(cid:863) Modern evolutionary psychologists suggest that the adaptive significance of behaviour is a key to understanding motivation: genes for need for affiliation would be selected for.