PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Dream Interpretation, Toilet Training, Machiavellianism

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Alexandra Pohlod

Document Summary

What a person eats can influence thinking & behaviour, psychologists have discovered that when ppl. are exposed to images/thoughts of fast food, they do everything fast. >it seems that fast food environments speeds up aspects of thinking & behaving. Motivation-concerns physiological & psychological processes underlying initiation of behaviours that direct organisms toward specific goals, initiating factors are known as motives. >motives include thoughts, feelings, sensations & bodily processes that lead to goal directed behaviour. >it is essential to survival b/c it contributes to homeostasis-body"s physiological processes that allow it to maintain consistent internal states in response to outer enviro. >states include physiological needs like appropriate body temperature & hunger/thirst indicators. Humans are highly motivated to form social bonds, across physiological, social & achievement motivation; psychologists view motives as two parts: >motivated behaviour involves drives-physiological triggers that tell ppl. he/she is deprived of something & causes him/her to seek out what"s needed (like food)