Psychology 3723F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dopaminergic Pathways, Motivated Reasoning, Psych

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3723F/G
• Professor: P. Palma

Document Summary

Psych 3723 lecture 5 motivation and attitudes. Motivation: motivation can be understood/conceptualized in terms of, origins underlying reasons to why we have those motivations, outcomes what motivation drives us to do. If behavior is frequently done, assumed people are motivated to do it. Integrative approaches: erg theory (alderfer, 1969) categorizes motivations into, existential needs: physiological, safety, relatedness needs: love, belonging, growth needs: esteem, self-actualization, self-determination theory (deci & ryan) Internal motivations: external motivations, focuses on self and growth needs but categorizes into internal and external instead. Internal motivations more permanent, external ones need consistent rewards. Impression-motive: all three antecedents predict heuristic processing, cognitive capacity predicts systematic processing, but only heuristic processing led to attitude change: heuristic processing, our different attitude functions are formed bc of different motives that engage different processes. But when they did, they took longer time to process that information.