PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Motivation, Intrinsic Activity, Humanistic Psychology

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Alison Luby

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Motivation: factors that energize, direct, or sustain behavior; they are energizing, directive, help ppl persist and differ in strength. Maslow"s hierarchy of needs: arrangement of needs (state of biological/social deficiency) in which basic survival needs must be met before ppl can satisfy their higher needs. Example of humanistic psychology, viewing ppl as striving toward personal fulfillment. Self-actualization occurs when someone achieves his personal dreams and aspirations and is truly happy. Arousal: physiological activation, such as increased brain activity, autonomic responses, sweating, muscle tension. Drive: psychological state that motivates an organism to satisfy its needs; drives create arousal e. g. food (need) hunger (drive) eating (behavior) Basic drives for biological states help animals maintain homeostatis: the tendency for bodily functions to maintain equilibrium, regulated by hypothalamus in negative feedback system. If behavior satisfies a need, and consistently reduces drive, it becomes a habit; the likelihood of a behavior occurring is due to drive and habit.