PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Disordered Eating, Facial Expression, Osteoporosis
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Motivation: physical needs or psychological wants that activate, direct, and maintain behavior toward some goal. Emotion: subjective (based on or influenced by personal feelings) feeling including arousal, cognitions, and expressions. (you can"t control the expression of emotion but you can control your behavior with that emotion) Instinct: inborn, unlearned behaviors universal to species explain motivation. Physiological need (lack of deficiency food) which elicits. Drive (psychological energy to seek, internal tension) which elicits. Behavior toward meeting goal, which leads to. Person has an optimal level of arousal to maintain. Other times level of arousal is increased. People seek optimal level of arousal that maximizes their performance. Too low levels of arousal- weak, no behaviors. Ex: when the prof says that she"s gonna give all students an a- low arousal for student and student doesn"t want to go to class anymore. Too high levels of arousal- anxiety, errors in behavior.
