PSY100Y5 Lecture : Chapter 10-Motivation and Emotion
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Incentive theories are external goals that have the capacity to motivate our behavior. (example) ice cream, a juicy steak, an a on an exam, approval from friends, etc Drive theories emphasize how an internal state of tension push people in a certain direction, and the incentive theory emphasizes how external stimuli pull people in certain directions. They believe that motives are a product of natural selection that has adaptive value (dominance, achievement, aggression, affiliation, sex drive, etc ). Biological motives that originate in bodily needs such as hunger, thirst, sleep, sex, and etc . Psychosocial (social) motives that originate in social experiences, such as the need for achievement, dominance, independence, amusement, etc . Motives are the needs, wants, interests, and desires that propel people in certain directions. Organisms seek to maintain homeostasis a state of physiological equilibrium/stability . lateral hypothalamus (lh): if you cut this part of the brain, then there no interest in eating, as if hunger was destroyed.