PSYC 2230 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ethology, Balance Theory, Cognitive Dissonance

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2230
• Professor: Frank Marchese

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Chapter 1 overview: conceptualizing and measuring motivation and the role of evolution in. Characteristics of motivation: each of us has some intuitive feeling for what is called motivation has proven difficult to define, one commonly held characteristic of motivation is its activating properties. Activation: the activating property of motivation is most easily seen in the production of behaviour. In opposition to nomothetic analyses is the idiographic approach, which proposes that we can understand behaviour by looking at how people differ from each other by examining those properties that make each person unique. Levels of analysis: motivation cuts across so many specialty areas within psychology number of levels at which its studied is large, grouped into four main categories: physiological analysis, individual analysis, social analysis, and philosophical analysis. Physiological analysis: research using animals is the most prevalent, co(cid:374)(cid:272)er(cid:374)ed (cid:449)ith the (cid:271)rai(cid:374)"s (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol of (cid:373)oti(cid:448)atio(cid:374)al states.