PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Interpersonal Communication, The Incentive, Achievement Orientation

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

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Note: there is a cumulative component on the final examination, it covers the entire winter semester mostly lecture notes. Human beings have biological needs speaks on physical drives but we have psychological drives called social motives. Motivation is what you want, need and are pursuing. Getting at the core of motivation -what it is that propels people forward for example when you are hungry you eat. Human beings have psychological motives called social motives. Motives propel people in certain directions to one person achievement is important while to another relationship is. , a different type of goal orientation. Motivation is a hypothetical construct something that we infer . we are still not sure what the foundation of that drive. We can infer someone is motivated when we see them persist towards a particular goal but we are some instances away from the inner need. N. b 10% males are anorexic and the latter females. Motivation food,sex social contact good grades good grades.