PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Fixed Action Pattern, Clark L. Hull, Drive Theory
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Motivation process that influences the direction, persistence, and vigour of goal directed behaviour. Instinct (fixed action pattern) an inherited characteristic, common to all members of a species, that automatically produces a particular response when the organism is exposed to a particular stimulus. Theories faded due to circular reasoning (people are greedy. Modern evolutionary psychologists propose that many motives have evolutionary greed is an instinct. Homeostasis a state of internal physiological equilibrium that the body strives to maintain. Requires a sensory mechanism for detecting changes in internal environment, a response system that can restore equilibrium, and a control centre that receives information from sensors. Drive theory physiological disruptions to homeostasis produce drives, states of. Clark hull proposes that reducing drives is the ultimate goal of motivated internal tension that motivate an organism that reduce this tension behaviour. Flaws in theory found in certain behaviours, such as when people skip meals to diet (increases rather than decreases state of arousal)
