PSYC 1 Lecture 3: Psych Notes-Social:Clinical

• School: UCSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1
• Professor: B E N S T O R M, M A U R E E N C A L L A N A N, K I M C A R D I L L A

Document Summary

In inner state that energizes people toward the fulillment of a goal. Physiological needs arouse tension that moivates people to saisfy the need (reduce tension: (hull, 1943, 1952) Incenive theory people are moivated to behave in ways that produce a valued incenive (reward: intrinsic incenives and moivaion. Moivated to engage because you enjoy it (internal: extrinsic incenives and moivaion. Moivated to engage because expecing external reward (good grade, physical reward) Approach that incorporates the various moivaion theories by viewing them in terms of levels of need: abraham maslow, physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness and love needs, esteem needs, need for self-actualizaion. Physiological needs: food, water, oxygen, sleep, and sex, biological. Safety needs: security of: body, morality, family, resources, property, health. Self-actualizaion other people: only when lower needs are met can one potenially atain self-actualizaion. Many companies use incenive programs to moivate their employees. Extrinsic incenives can undermine intrinsic moivaion (deci, 1971)