PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Motivation, Social Dilemma, Standardized Test
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How does motivation activate, direct, and sustain behavior. Motivation is the area of psychological science that studies the factors that energize, or stimulate behavior. Specifically, it is concerned with how behavior is initiated, directed, and sustained. Motivational states are energizing in that they activate or arouse behaviors they cause animals to do something. Motivational states are directive in that they guide behaviors toward satisfying specific goals or needs are achieved or needs are satisfied. Motivational states help people to persist in their behavior until goals. A need is a state of biological or social deficiency, such as a lock or air. A need hierarchy, is maslow"s arrangement of needs, in which basic or food her personal dreams and aspirations survival needs are lowest and personal growth needs are highest in terms of ultimate priority. A state of self-actualization occurs when someone achieves his or. Drives are psychological states activated to satisfy needs.
