PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Motivation, Psy, Homeostasis

• School: University of Maine
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 100
• Professor: Michael Robins

Document Summary

Exam 3 will have promotionally more questions on cognition. Motivation: the process by which activities are started, directed, or continued to meet physical or psychological needs. Intrinsic motivation: act itself is motivating or internally rewarding. Extrinsic motivation: outcome is separate from person (went over all of this last class as well) Instinct approaches: proposed that some human actions may be motivated by instincts. Instincts: innate patterns of behavior found in both people and animals: example, we know a person is hungry because they are eating, they are eating because they are hungry. Primary drives: involve needs of the body such as hunger, sex and thirst. Acquired (secondary) drives: learned through experience or conditioning, such as the need for money of social approval. Homeostasis: the tendency of the body to maintain a steady state. Need for achievements (nach): desire to attain realistic and challenging goals. Need for af liation (naff): need for social interaction.