PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Body Mass Index, Cheese Sandwich, Bulimia Nervosa

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

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Motives: needs, wants, interests, and desires that proper us to achieve goals. Homeostasis: a state of physiological equilibrium or stability, to behavior. Drive: an internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce this tension. Incentive: an external goal that has the capacity to motivate behavior. According to expectancy-value models, one"s motivation to pursue a particular course of action will depend on two factors: expectancy about one"s chances of attaining the incentive and. Your motivation to pursue a promotion at work will depend on your estimate of the likelihood that you can snare the promotion (expectancy) and on how appealing the promotion is to you (value) Argues that natural selection favours behaviours that maximize reproductive success. For example, the need for dominance is thought to be greater in men than women because it could facilitate males" reproductive success in a variety of ways, including. 2. dominant males may poach females from subordinate males,