PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Auditory System, Media Consumption, Prolactin
6 Apr 2018
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The need or desire that energizes and directs behavior. Our motivations arise from the interplay between nature (the bodily push ) and nurture (the pulls from our thought processes and culture). There are four perspectives for viewing motivated behavior. Ex: if people criticized themselves, it was because of their. Self-abasement instinct. if they boasted, it reflected their self- assertion instinct. Rather than explaining human behaviors, the early instinct theorists were simply naming them. Complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned. Ex: such behaviors are common in other species (ex: imprinting in birds and the return of salmon to their birthplace). Some human behaviors, such as infants" innate reflexes for rooting and sucking, also exhibit unlearned fixed patterns. Many more are directed by both physiological needs and psychological wants. Instinct theory failed to explain most human motive. But its underlying assumption that genes predispose some species-typical behavior continues in evolutionary psychology.
