PSYC 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Perceptual Learning, Cognitive Map, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
21 Oct 2012
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Chapter 5: drive theory and motivational psychology: concept of drive: introduced originally by freud and woodworth in early 1900s and replaced concept of instinct. Drive refers to an energized state arising out of need that propels organisms toward a goal that satisfies the need and reduces the drive. There was no consensus of the definition of instinct. Energy beyond a certain point is unpleasant since organism governed by. Reduce excessive excitation in nervous system and this is pleasurable (sense of relieve). Increase in excitation is unpleasurable: freud said moving force (drive) has 4 characteristics, pressure: strength of force and stronger force the more motivated, aim: of moving force is satisfaction, object: of moving force may be internal/external to individual. Object may change in course of life but moving force remains the same. Objects provide need reduction may change throughout life and vary: 2 classes of moving forces: life and death. Life force: psychic energy that powers it is eros.
