[PSYC 4750] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (48 pages long)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4750
• Professor: Erin Rock

Document Summary

Motivated: moved into action or decide on change in action/behaviour. Action/behaviour is induced by internal motives or environmental incentives. Internal disposition to be concerned with an approach positive incentives and avoid negative ones. Incentive: anticipated reward or aversive event, environmental stimulus that attracts or repels. Obtaining an incentive is often a goal of your motive. Motives push a person into action toward an end state: ex. hunger as a push toward food, physiological needs, psychological needs. Incentives pull a person toward an end state: ex. earning a degree pulls a person to attend class, goals, external incentives. Emotion: a universal multi-channeled reaction by which a person copes with a stimulus change. Anger is for coping with a blocked goal. Motivation means to anticipate the end of a journey for satisfying a need or achieving a goal. Consummatory (to complete) behaviour: that which marks the end of a motivation journey.