PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Human Sexual Response Cycle, Social Comparison Theory, Leptin
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Motivation = the area of psychological science concerned with the factors that energize, or stimulate, behavior. It focuses on what produces behavior for instance, what makes you get up in the morning and go to class. Humanistic psychology: viewing people as striving toward personal fulfillment. Yerkes-dodson law principle: performance increases with arousal up to an optimal point and then decreases with increasing arousal. Sigmund freud proposed that drives are satisfied according to the pleasure. Principle, which drives people to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Self-determination theory: people are motivated to satisfy needs for competence, relatedness to others and autonomy, which is a sense of personal control. Extrinsic rewards may reduce the intrinsic value because such rewards undermine people"s feeling that they are choosing to do something for themselves. Self-perception theory: people seldom are aware of their specific motives and instead draw inferences about their motivations according to what seems to make the most sense.