PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Vaginal Lubrication, Bulimia Nervosa, Lateral Hypothalamus
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Motives are needs, wants, interests, and desires that propel people in certain directions: motivation involves goal directed behaviour, can be an important determinant of adjustment. Street kids often characterized by little motivation to reach definable and coherent goals. No long-term goals of their own; become aimless: number of theoretical approaches to motivation. Drive theories: view motivational forces in terms of drives, drive theories apply concept of homeostasis. Homeostasis: state of physiological equilibrium or stability (to behaviour: drive: an internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce this tension. When individuals experience drive, motivated to pursue actions that will lead to drive reduction. Hunger motive classified as drive system internal tension (drive) motivates you to obtain food; eating reduces the drive and restores the physiological equilibrium: drive theories cannot explain all motivation. Homeostasis appears irrelevant to some human motives such as thirst for knowledge. Incentive theories: propose that external stimuli regulate motivational states.
