PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Endorphins, Secondary Sex Characteristic, Negative Feedback
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Motivation area of psychological science concerned with factors that energize/stimulate behaviour. Motivational states are energizing: activates/arouses behaviour. Motivational states are directive: guides behaviours towards satisfying specific goals or needs. Motivational states help people persist in their behaviour until goals are achieved or needs are satisfied. Motives differ in strength, depending on internal/external factors. People need other people; preference to be solitary or social will vary. Need state of deficiency, can be biological (ex. food) or social (ex. company) Failure to satisfy particular need leads to psychosocial or physical impairment. Abraham maslow proposes need theory of motivation, believing that humans are driven by many needs arranged into a need hierarchy. Need hierarchy maslow"s arrangement of needs in which basic survival needs to be met before people can satisfy higher needs. Survival needs (ex. hunger, thirst) at base of pyramid, must be satisfied first.
