PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Delayed Gratification, Sexual Arousal, Motivation

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Part i motivations and emotions- kind of interconnected with part ii heath and disease. Drives e. g. hunger- psychological states that encourage behaviours to satisfy needs. Drives e. g. hunger- psychological states that encourage behaviours to satisfy needs e. g. hunger is a drive that satisfies the need for food. Encourage behaviour by increasing arousal(increeasing mental activity, physical thing anything can classify under arousal) Motivation increases so does arousal level as the drive for hunger increases. Usually arousal to motivation- just assume that for now. You get an upside down curve- the yerkes-dodson law. Going from low to high level of arousal. The optimal level of arousal is the moderate level of arousal leading to the best performance. A little bit of arousal is good no anxiousness= no motivation to study early; if too much arousal = too anxious = you can"t think straight= poor performance. Moderate level leads to the greatest quality of performance.