PSYC 2230 Lecture Notes - Ted 2, Leptin, Nomothetic
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Chapter 1 motivation: concepts and measurement: concept of motivation (m): forces acting on or within an organism to initiate action (p. 4). The more motivated, the more intensity and persistence. Stopping is motivated to stop what you are doing and start other things: measurement of m: not measured directly; manipulate stimulus (s) condition and observe behavioural response (r) (see p. 5) Stimulus seeker driven by novelty, curiously, manipulation, and exploration. We infer motivation on what we do and what we observe (intervening variable) Impulse of repeating the same thing over and over again. People decollation, people constriction (partly overt and convert) Eeg brain wave level of arousal. Paradoxical sleep generate brain wave similar to wave while awake. Hyperactive- brain is active while asleep: persistence as in ongoing performance of b thinking is convert (internal) and overt (observable) Type b: better emotional adaptation: vigor as in forceful behavior, direction as in which choice of goal is made.