PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Thematic Apperception Test, Display Rules, Date Rape
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Motivational theories and concepts: motivation: involves goal-directed behaviour, street kids who don"t follow the standards of traditional societies often don"t replace these standards with their own and are therefore living for the short-term . Incentive: external goal that has the capacity to motivate behaviour. Incentive theories: propose that external stimuli regulate motivational states, drive and incentive models of motivation often contrasted as push-versus-pull theories, drive theories: how internal states of tension push people in certain directions, motivation lies within organism. Insulin: hormone secreted by the pancreas and must be present for cells to extract glucose from blood: secretion of insulin associated with increased hunger, other hormones playing role in short-term regulation of hunger: Ultimately provides hypothalamus with info about body"s fat stores: note: when leptin levels high, propensity to feel hungry decreases. Environmental factors in the regulation of hunger: three key environmental factors are: (1) the availability of food (2) learned preferences and habits, and (3) stress.
