PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa, Judith Rodin

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Doug Mc Cann

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Psyc 1010 - chapter 10: motivation & emotion (part 1) Motives are the needs, wants, interests and desires that propel people in certain directions to achieve goals. Motivation involves goal-directed behavior: drive theories. Many theories view motivational forces in terms of drives. Drive theories apply the concept of homeostasis a state of physiological equilibrium or stability, to behavior. Drive an internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce this tension. Tensions are viewed as disruptions to the preferred equilibrium. According to drive theories, when individuals experience a drive, they"re motivated to pursue actions that will lead to drive reduction: ex. Hunger eating reduces drive & restores equilibrium: incentive theories. Incentive theories propose that external stimuli regulate motivational states. Incentive an external goal that has the capacity to motivate behavior. (ex. Expectancy-value models of motivation are incentive theories that take reality into account.