PSYC 1010 Lecture 9: PSYC1010 - L9 - Motivation

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Agnieszka Kopinska

Document Summary

Motives are the needs, wants, interests, and desires that propel people in certain directions, propel us to achieve certain goals. Instinct is a complex behaviour that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned. Incentive is an external goal that pulls or pushes behaviour. The drive theory refers to the biological needs that create physiological drives to maintaining homeostasis. The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need. o. The source of motivation lies within the organism. Drive is an internal condition or impulse that activates to reduce a need and restore homeostasis. Homeostasis is a state of physiological equilibrium or stability. The incentive theory proposes that external stimuli regulate motivational states. The source of motivation lies outside the organism. Incentive is an external goal that has the capacity to motivate behaviour and/or pulls or.