PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Human Sexual Response Cycle, Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Alexithymia
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How does motivation activate, direct and sustain behavior. Motivation factors the energize and direct behaviour. Drives psychological state that encourages a behaviour (hunger encourages eating) Need a state of biological or social deficiency; creates arousal. Arousal a physiological activation (brain activity or sweating ) Need hierarchy biological needs are on the bottom and social needs on top. Habit when a behavior consistently reduces a drive. Yerkes-dodson law optimal performance occurs at moderate arousal. Pleasure principle humans seek pleasure and avoid pain. Incentives some reward or punishment to motivate behaviour; tiger chasing you = run faster. Intrinsic motivation motivation to perform because it is pleasurable: reading is pleasurable, but satisfies no goals. Extrinsic motivation motivation to perform because it will satisfy goals: studying psychology to get a good grade. Rewarding intrinsic motives: after being paid, when the payments stopped, the task was no longer pleasurable. Self-determination theory people motivated to satisfy needs for competence, and personal control.
