PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Dieting, Stressor
7 Mar 2014
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Motivation: drive= psychological state that encourages behaviour that satisfy needs, e. g. hunger (drive) (cid:224) motivate to find food /eating (cid:224) satisfy need aka food, encourage behavior by increasing arousal, drives(cid:224) arousal, arousal(cid:224)motivation, motivation(cid:224) performance, yerkes dodson law= moderate levels of arousal will lead to optimal quality of performance, high or low arousal won"t lead to good performance quality, maslov"s hierarchy of needs: need to fulfill needs from the bottom up . basic(cid:224)psychological(cid:224) self fulfillment needs, problems with this: there"s actually no need to fill the bottom first before the higher levels. Turnip eaters used up all of their self regulatory resources(cid:224) spent less time on the puzzle than everyone else: delayed gratification, marshmallow test , young children staring at a marshmallow, kids who were able to wait= have higher success rates in the future, strategies: turning hot into cold cognitions, ignoring, distraction:
