PSYCO104 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Relation, Prefrontal Cortex, Autonomic Nervous System

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Clayton Dickson

Document Summary

The term motivation often triggers images of people who persevere to attain their dreams and stretch the boundaries of human achievement. Motivation: is a process that influences the direction, persistence and vigour of goal-directed behaviour. Brian states that influence processing of stimuli and behaviour output. Factors within and outside an organism causing it to behave in a certain way at a certain time. An internal condition (changing with time), that orients an individual to a specific set of goals such as hunger, thirst, sex curiosity) Goals or reinforcers in the external environment such as food, water, a mate, good grades. Motivational effects on behaviour directed by drives towards incentive. If one is weak, the other must be strong to motivate the action, can influence each other"s strength. Darwin"s theory of evolution inspired early psychological views that instincts motivate much of our behaviour.