PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Affective Forecasting, Ventromedial Nucleus Of The Hypothalamus, Prefrontal Cortex

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

Document Summary

Our goals can be the result both of planned and automatic activation. Drive theories: drive: a internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce this tension, these unpleasant states of tension are viewed as disruptions of the preferred equilibrium . Ex: rise and drops in body temperature results in automatic responses: those that experience a drive are motivated to pursue actions that will lead to. According to this theory, motivation lies within the organism (homeostasis: incentive theories emphasize how external stimuli pull people in certain directions. According to this theory, motivation lies outside the organism in the environment (internal changes) Expectancy-value models of motivation: these are incentive theories, that are dependent on 2 factors, expectancy, about ones chances of attaining the incentive, the value of the desired incentive. Affiliation motive or need for belongingness: this helped with rearing offspring"s for our late ancestors for hunting or defence etc