PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Ventromedial Nucleus Of The Hypothalamus, Eating Disorder, Human Sexual Response Cycle

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Janice nervous about exam, keeps eating mindlessly. Hunger"s a biological drive that in uences what we pay attention to and interacts with our past experiences and current mental states such as excitement and anxiety. Study of motivation concerns the physiological and psychological processes underlying the initiation of behaviours that direct organisms toward speci c goals. Initiating factors (motives) include thoughts, feelings, sensations, bodily processes. E. g. when body"s water levels are low, cells release compounds to maintain uidity of cells; receptors see increased concentration of compounds and you drink water. Drive a biological trigger that tells us we may be deprived of something and causes us to seek out what is needed, such as food or water. Satisfy drive reward centres in brain become activated, reinforcing our behaviour and making it more likely that well respond to these drives in the future.