PSYCH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Blood Sugar, Harry Harlow, Abraham Maslow
23 Nov 2017
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Definition: process that initiates, sustains, directs behavior towards a goal. Positive or negative stimuli that motivate our behavior **( best)*: expectancy theory: our behavior is influenced by expected outcomes incentives . Incentive: : hierarchy of needs a, abraham maslow (student of harry harlow) i. Motivation and emotion lecture notes: self-actualization: fulfilling potential, works for some but not all: hunger strikes, climbing everest, must fulfill biological needs before undertaking self actualization. Hunger: physiological factors, peripheral factors, cannon and washburn (1912)- role of the stomach, other signals i. i. Signals to stop eating. (intestines and stomach). monitored in hypothalamus. will stop eating behavior: weight control? if you put someone on a regimen, eventually their normal eating patterns reemerge, lateral hypothalamus (lh): stimulates eating behavior. feeding center. Lesion i. ii. i. ii: ventromedial hypothalamus (vh): turn off eating behavior. satiety center. Stimulate: stop eating even if it has been deprived of food.
