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Damasio"s research team showed eliot a series of disturbing pictures and observed no emotional reaction. Sabotaged his ability to make rational decisions. Motivation is the area of psychological science concerned with the factors that energize, or stimulate, behaviour. 1940s, abraham maslow proposed a need theory of motivation: example of humanistic psychology viewing people as striving toward personal fulfillment, humans are driven by many needs, arranged into a need hierarchy. Placed survival needs (hunger and thirst) at the base. Living up to full potential, achieving personal dreams and aspirations at the top: a state of self-actualization occurs when someone achieves his or her personal dreams and aspirations, maslow"s hierarchy lacks empirical support. Needs create arousal which motivates behaviour: arousal is used to describe physiological activation (such as increased brain activity) or increased autonomic responses (quickened heart rate, increased sweating, or muscle tension)
