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

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

Document Summary

Concerns the physiological and psychological process underlying the initiation of behaviours that direct organisms toward specific goals. Initiating factors include thoughts, feelings, sensations, and bodily processes that lead to goal directed. Chapter 11 motivation behaviour drive such as food or water. Motivation is not only influenced by current needs, but also by the anticipation of future needs the need to consume enough nutrients so you have energy to function involves physiological, complex cognitive and emotional factors. Sugar that serves as a primary energy source for brain/body glucostats. Signal the hypothalamus that energy supplies are too low, leading to increased hunger insulin. Hormone secreted by pancreas that helps store circulating glucose for future use satiation (cck) The point in a meal when we are no longer motivated to eat (feeling is partially induced by cholecystokinin. Cck is released when intestines expand ventromedial hypothalamus decreases appetite then that happens orbitofrontal cortex. Part of the frontal lobes just above your eyes.