Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Display Rules, Sexual Orientation, Paraventricular Nucleus Of Hypothalamus

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Prof

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Motivation: a process that influences the direction, persistence, and vigour of goal directed behaviour. Instinct: an inherited predisposition to behave in a specific and predictable way when exposed to a particular stimulus. Homeostasis: a state of internal physiological equilibrium that a body strives to maintain. We drink and sit in the shade when we"re hot. Drive theory: physiological disruptions to homeostasis produce drives, states of internal tension that motivate an organism to behave in ways that reduce this tension. Incentives: represent environmental stimuli that pull and organism toward a goal. Extrinsic motivation: performing an activity to obtain an external reward or avoid punishment. Intrinsic: performing an activity for its own sake. Because you find it enjoyable or stimulating. Need hierarchy: a progression of needs containing deficiency needs at the bottom and growth needs at the top. Satisfy lower needs and once these needs are fulfilled we move up.