PSYC 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pangs, Little Albert Experiment, Leptin
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Lecture 2: individual analysis: research aimed at understanding motivational changes to internal and external conditions. In studies of achievement, motivation was induced by telling subjects that they had failed. An important task. in aggression studies observe results of modeled presentations of aggression. (p 10-11). Some people remain in the field or challenge while some retire: social analysis : examines motivational changes in the presence and absence of others. The role of situational factors such as work, school, a party. One of the motivational themes in psychology is to account for determinants of bahavior. The term drive is synonymous with arousal and motivation. Any aversive stimulus arouses us and if we find it aggressive we tend to try to escape it or we either take preparatory methods to avoid it. For example pavlov and the dock with the shocking experiment. The bell could be paired with either food or shock the bell also became associated with a forth coming event.