PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Medial Forebrain Bundle, Nucleus Accumbens, Problem Gambling

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Stephanie Denison

Document Summary

Behavioral states: slower-changing components of the mind (they include variations in motivation, emotion, and level of arousal) Motivation: used in psychology to refer to the entire constellation of factors, some inside the organism and some outside, that cause an individual to behave in a particular way at a particular time. Motivated behaviour is directed towards incentives, rewards or goals: e. g. The motivational state that leads you to stand in line at the cafeteria is presumably hunger, but the incentive for doing so is the pizza you intend to purchase. Drives and incentives complement one another and influence each other"s strengths in the control of behaviour; if one is weak, the other must be strong to motivate the goal- orientated action. Two general classes of drives- regulatory and non-regulatory: regulatory drive: a drive that helps preserve homeostasis (i. e. hunger, thirst etc. , non-regulatory drive: a drive that serves some other purpose (i. e. sex)