PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Lateral Hypothalamus, Leptin, Parasympathetic Nervous System
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Motivation and emotions work together to help you fulfill your goals. All of the processes that initiate, direct and sustain behavior. Motives are needs or desires that direct or energize our behavior: maslow"s hierarchy of needs. You need to complete the bottom stage before moving on to the next stage. Drives: when motives are internal they push us to act. Incentives: when motives are external (or outside of us, they pull or entice us to act. Primary drives: stem from unlearned motives to satisfy biological needs, drives, internal drives, e. g. Secondary drives: incentives, external drives, need for achievement, need to affiliation, need understanding, develop through learning and experience. Humans will do something to satisfy our needs, to keep homeostasis. There is a set point that we try to maintain. How does homeostasis work: autonomic nervous system. Parasympathetic: these systems control the compensatory mechanisms, hypothalamus.
