AHSS*1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eustress, Walter Bradford Cannon, Thalamus
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We have much going on with our lives and have thousands of different thoughts each day, but we act on portion of them. Trying to understand the why is extremely challenging. We are all motivated but not in the same way, at the same time, with the same people. Motivation internal state that activates and gives direction to thoughts: general term for all the processes involved in starting directing, and maintaining physical and psychological activities, root in latin movere to move . Also concerns the conditions responsible for variation in intensity (vigor), persistence, quality (direction), and direction of ongoing behavior (vinacke, 1962: biological: internal physiological state. From 1950-2008 the term motivation has appeared in almost. Human motives for things that are necessary for survival e. g. , food, water, warm, shelter, love. Governed by the midbrain & hindbrain (e. g. , hypothalamus) The hypothalamus governs thirst, sleep, body temperature, hunger, emotions.
