Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 11: Overjustification Effect, Polygraph, Blood Sugar

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

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Instinct (also called a fixed action pattern): an inherited characteristic, common to all members of a species, that automatically produces a particular response when the organism is exposed to a particular stimulus. Modern evolutionary psychologists propose many motives have evolutionary underpinnings expressed through the actions of significance of behaviour is a key to understand motivation. Homeostasis: a state of internal equilibrium that the body strives to maintain. Drive theory: physiological disruptions to homeostasis produce drives, internal tension that motivates an organism to behave in ways that reduce this tension. Incentives: represent environmental stimuli that pull a organism toward a goal. Modern incentive theory emphasizes the pull of external stimuli and how stimuli with high incentive value can motivate behaviour. Extrinsic motivation: performing an activity to obtain an external reward or to avoid punishment. Intrinsic motivation: performing an activity b/c you want to.