PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fixed Action Pattern, Motivation, Cognitive Dissonance

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Doug Mc Cann

Document Summary

Spontaneous inference- always searching for causality, this is called the study of attribution (why people do what they do)- part of the social psychology. These are the fundamental principles in western society. By incentivising behaviour, you take away their intrinsic want to do the behaviour, which cannot be good for performance: definition: factors that arouse or activate an organism and direct it toward some specific goal. In every action there is the presence of motivation: classes of theories: People and animals are born with preprogrammed sets of behaviours essential to their survival. When some basic biological requirement is lacking a drive is produced to motivate behaviour. If the level of stimulation is too high, they act to reduce it; if it is too low, they act to increase it. Thoughts, expectations, and understanding of the world direct motivation. Needs form a hierarchy: before higher-order needs are met, lower-order needs must be fulfilled. (maslow whose (cid:373)e(cid:374)to(cid:396)"s (cid:373)e(cid:374)to(cid:396) (cid:449)as ig(cid:373)u(cid:374)d f(cid:396)eud.