PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Belongingness, Motivation, Homeostasis
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Goal directed towards behaviors- motivated individuals keep working until they reach their goal. Vary from time to time and one individual to the next. If an individual varies the behavior and persists until reaching a goal, it is a motivated behavior. Several frameworks that are used in psychology to understand what motivation is. Drive theories: a drive is a state of unrest of irritation that energizes one behaviours after until one of them removes the irritation. Example: a splinter: drive-reduction theory proposes that animals strive to reduce their drives as much as possible. Homeostasis: maintenance of an optimum level of biological conditions within an organism. The homeostasis framework overlooks the power of new stimuli to arouse behaviour. Humans also will adjust current behavior or consumption in anticipation of future needs. A person may eat one large meal in anticipation of skipping the next one. Incentives are external stimuli that pull us toward certain actions.
