PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Twin Study, Autonomic Nervous System, Cortisol
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Our behavior is a consequence of your motivation. Motivation drives you to participate in a specific type of behavior. Motivation refers to the moving force that energizes behavior: direction or goal of motives motivation ultimately drive your behavior, strength of motives. Motives reflect: biological needs, psychosocial needs. Sex drive help you survive and ultimately get you to the point of reproduction. Adptations help organism survive, and take the organism to pass on genes for future generations. Physiological when we have our physiological needs met, we are motivated to provide safety needs. Once those needs are met, we are motivated and focused to achieve the other levels of needs. This theory suggests that the less likely you are to help others if you aren"t getting enough for yourself. Central nervous system: anatomy and neurochemistry, the brain and the spinal cord (from previous chapter) Peripheral nervous system: everything outside of the brain and spinal cord.
