PSY 1101 Lecture : Lectures on Motivation Lectures from Brown's 2011 section on motivation pertaining to Ch.11 of the 9th edition of the Psychology textbook

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Robert Brown

Document Summary

Unlearned internal, that it doesn"t need external stimuli to generate the response. Chicks can stand almost immediately, and will begin to scratch and peck at the ground. Imprinting: ducklings immediately imprint onto adults if they see adult first (useful because instinct cues behaviour of offspring to be attracted to first large object they see after hatching). If a dog is the first thing they see, the dog wouldn"t be able to do much duck/bird - wise. Conrad loren lifetime study on instinctual and bonding/imprinting events in birds. He"d incubate eggs and leave boots near the nest, and the birds would be imprinted onto the boots. Motivation is a need or desire that energizes behaviour and directs it towards a goal. Instinct theory (replaced by the evolutionary perspective) A complex behaviour that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned. Common in other species, less so in humans (at all?)