PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Ventromedial Nucleus Of The Hypothalamus, The Roots, Binge Eating
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Motives are the needs, wants, interests, and desires that propel people in certain directions, propel us to achieve important goals. Homeostasis: state of physiological equilibrium or stability. Emphasize how internal states of tension push people in certain directions. Incentive: an external goal that has the capacity to motivate behaviour. Ex: a on the exam, ice cream, job promotion. Some of these incentives may reduce drives but other may not. Drive and incentive models = push and pull forces. Emphasize how external stimuli pull people in certain directions. Based on evolutionary theories, motives such as affiliation, achievement, dominance, aggression and sex drive is looked at in terms of their adaptive value. Motives solved adaptive problems for our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Humans display an enormous diversity of motives. People share the same biological motives most are essential to survival but their social motives vary depending on their experiences: ex: we all need to eat but not everyone acquires need for orderliness.
