PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Basal Forebrain, Reward System, Limbic System

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Ingrid Johnsrude

Document Summary

The (internal and external) desires, needs and interests that arouse and activate an organism to move toward a specific goal . A general term for a group phenomena that affect the nature, strength and persistence of an individual"s behaviour : process by which activities are started, directed and continued, so physical or psychological needs are fulfilled. Reversible internal conditions that orient individuals toward specific types of goals . Elements of motivated behaviour: biological: hunger and thirst, cognitive: goals expectations and desire for personal achievement, social : competition, peer recognition status and personal responsibility. Emotion: feeling aspect of consciousness: 3 aspects: physical arousal, behaviour that reveals feeling to outside world. Elements of emotion: biological: increased heart rate/breathing, cognitive :interpreting subjective feeling by giving it a label, social: how we express behaviour (facial expressions, body movements) Include hunger, thirst, thermoregulation and sleep that help maintain homeostasis, and are needed for immediate survival: related to areas of hypothalamus.