PSYC 320 Lecture 3: Motivation 3 PDF
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The history of the concept / lecture 2: prominent early thinkers, descartes. Noticed that animals act in a re exive way. Humans are different from animals in that they have reason and a soul: hobbes. Hedonist thinker - - seek pleasure / avoid pain. Did not believe in actions stemming from a soul - - something intangible. Thought that everything had a material cause. Humans are sel sh creatures that only do things that bene t us. His beliefs in uenced later behaviorists: darwin. For many years humans observed animal behavior as something inherit to them. They did not have to learn how to act. It was something they knew how to do from birth. Asked the question, what is an instinct? . He also believed that the distinction between animal instinct and human instinct was not as clear cut as people had been making it out to be. He noticed that animals and humans shared similar instinctive traits.
