PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Hypothalamus, Homeostasis, Jane Addams

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Tanya Salamander

Document Summary

Innate motivations to foster our survival and the survival of others: social motives (belonging, esteem, dominance, research can come from very different perspective, biological (cid:224) underlying biological mechanisms that play a role in addictive behaviours, eating behaviours, social, personality, clinical (cid:224) abstract motivations, all motives involve a little of both (eg. food, types of motivational theories, drive reduction theory (hull, 1940s) Behaviourist mentality, interested in what motivates behaviour without reference to mental state: need (eg. for food, water) (cid:224) drive (hunger, thirst) (cid:224) drive reduction behaviours (eating, drinking, approach food to satisfy that drive (reduced drive, incentive theories. Regulating behaviour toward a goal: schemas about goals (eg. high marks, choosing major, motivated by food, goal drives behaviour that allow us to satisfy that goal, might think that it"s solely a biological process, much more complex behaviours that have to be set in motion to get food.