PSYC 3222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Adapalene, Heart Rate, Cognitive Dissonance
27 Apr 2017
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Chapter 10 - 4/20 & 4/25 & 4/27. Motives are the forces that incite a person to act. Motivation is powerful in determining performance in school. Emotions are complex in determining what we do: People who have less access to feelings can be paralyzed in decision-making. Reflexes are simple, unlearned, stimulus-specific responses that explain some elementary human behavior. Orienting reflex - the general reflexive response an organism makes to novel stimuli. These behaviors are evolutionarily programmed to help us survive, but can also be used to initiate learning (watson & pavlov) Some reflexes show preprogrammed motor patterns that will be used later. Other reflexes are simply to enable survival in the first month. Instincts - complex inherited patters of behavior that are common to an entire species & facilitate survival. Today many psychologists say there is no evidence that there are any instincts among humans. Freudian theory describes the notion that powerful, instinctual tendencies are associated with survival and procreation.
