CAS PS 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Conscientiousness, Twin, Hans Selye

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Barry Grant

Document Summary

Motivation: process that influences the direction, persistence, and vigor of goal-directed behavior. Motivate our behavior to ultimately alter some internal process/state (homeostasis) Regulating it by sweating, turn down furnace, remove sweater, blood vessels in skin dilate to remove heat, keep temperature within some range. Motivation by regular stimuli/motivated by external goals and rewards. High-incentive goal: need --> drive --> response (a in a class) Incentives are what pull the organism toward that goal. Motives are the product of natural selection - we are motivated to do certain things because of their adaptive value. Extrinsic motivation - performing an activity to obtain an external reward or to avoid punishment. Intrinsic motivation - performing an activity for its own sake. Studying because you enjoy it, want to learn. Hunger, thirst, sex, activity, temperature, aggression, sleep, excretion. Achievement, affiliation (form social bonds), dominance (influence/control others), nurturance, autonomy (independence), exhibition (impress people), order (organization), play (relaxation/amusement)