PSY100H1 Chapter 9: Chapter 9 notes
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Chapter 9: motivation: motivation is the area of psychological science that studies factors that energize, direct, stimulate or sustain behaviour, how behaviour is initiated, directed and sustained. Need, drives and arousal motivate behaviour: a need is a state of deficiency, such as lack of air or food. we also need social, needs to have a satisfying live: abraham maslow created a need hierarchy. personal growth, are highest: humanistic psychology, people are striving towards personal fulfillment, self-actualization, is when someone achieves their personal dreams and aspirations. there are some discrepancies with this; some people starve to show that they can hope for the best. Drives: drives are psychological states activated to satisfy needs i. e. level of sex drive, being driven to succeed, arousal , motivates behaviours that will satisfy these needs (drive) Arousal and performance: yerkes-dodson"s law states that performance increases with arousal until an optimal point, after which arousal interferes with performance www. notesolution. com.
