PSYC 4750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1 and 2: Psychophysiology, Nonverbal Communication, Margaret Mead

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4750
• Professor: Mark Fenske

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It needs to identify the relations that exist among naturally occurring, observable: theory needs to identify what causes the phenomenon and also what the phenomenon itself causes. Needs to explain why those relations exist: for instance why does a challenge lead some people to experience hope and to exert greater effort while it leads other people to experience only anxiety and to withhold effort. Study of motivation revolves around providing answers for 2 fundamental questions. What causes behaviour--> elaborated into the study of how motivation affects behaviour"s initiation, persistence, change, goal directedness, and eventual termination. Arousal: bodily mobilization to cope with situation demands. Purpose: motivation urge to accomplish something specific at that. Expression: nonverbal communication of our emotional experience to moment others. External events and social contexts: motivational power of incentives and rewards is actually traceable to the dopamine discharge that occurs in your subcortical brain when you expect the delivery of a valued reward.