PSYC 1010 Midterm: Notes on Chapter 10 These notes are taken from the text book "Psychology Themes and Variations". I will provide the notes for chapter 10 Motivation and Emotion. This can be useful for the midterm.

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Motives: needs, wants, interests and desires that involve goal-directed behaviour. Clark hull homeostasis the drive theory: drive theory: state of tension that motivates an organism to try and reduce this tension through certain activities. Drive reduction: hungry not a stable state eat restore physiological equilibrium. Source of motivation is within the organism. Incentive theory: external goal that has the capacity to motivate behaviour. Source of motivation runs outside the organism. Expectancy value chance of gaining incentive + the desired incentive. May also exist without drive arousal (eg. see ice cream= go buy ice cream: evolutionary theory: Natural selection favours behaviour that maximizes reproductive success (eg. dominance, aggression, affiliation) 2 types of human motives: biological: hunger, thirst, sex, temperature, sleep, aggression, activity(arousal, social: achievement, affiliation, autonomy(independence), nurture, dominance, order, play, exhibition(impress) Examples of types of motivation: motivation of hunger and eating. Biological factors: 1) role of the brain, 2) blood sugar level (digestion regulations), 3) hormones.