PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Varenicline, Methadone, Sleep Deprivation
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Definition: traditional views- motivation is a process that initiates, directs, and maintains physical and psychological activities of people and other organisms. Achievement motives- the desire to succeed and make significant and valuable accomplishments. He and over thousand inventions like bulbs, microphones. Broad motives, such as for achievement, are like personality traits. The desire to change is considered a motive, and assessing it can be important in therapy, especially if the client fill out. A theory called the stages of change model describes a series of 5 stages through which people"s motivation and intention to modify a specific behavior, such as exercising, progress in readiness to change. At the lowest stage, the person has no interest in changing the behavior; at the highest stage, the person has completed the change and is working to maintain it. People at an intermediate level called preparation have made commitment to modify the behavior, such as starting to exercise.
