PSYC 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Homeostasis, Neurosis, Vladimir Bekhterev

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2230
• Professor: Frank Marchese

Document Summary

Chapter 5: drive theory and motivational psychology (photocopy: concept of drive: introduced originally by freud and woodworth in the early 1900s and replaced the concept of instinct. Maslow"s hierarchy of needs: drive induces responses that reduce need and drive (drive reduction. Energy beyond a certain point is unpleasant since organism is governed by principle of constancy . Reduce excitation in nervous system and this is pleasurable. Object may change in the course of life but moving force remains the same. Fixation of an object or restricted range of objects may occur: source of moving force is the need (bodily deficit from which too much excitation-hunger, thirst, fatigue, etc. arises). 2015-03-24 6:12 pm: freud"s model: need drive - psychic energy behaviour goal . Satisfaction through need and drive reduction: example, source: need for water, pressure: strength of need great due to 36 hours of water deprivation, aim: pleasure through need reduction, object: water that can provide need reduction.