PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Prenatal Hormones And Sexual Orientation, Thalamus, Projective Test

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

Chapter 10: motivation and emotion (textbook notes) pages 439 479. Drive theories: drive theories apply the concept of homeostasis: state of physiological equilibrium or stability, drives: an internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce tension. Drive reduction example: experiencing hunger (drive) during a long lecture this internal drive of hunger motivates you to obtain food to satisfy your hungry, thus reducing the tension and restores physiological equilibrium/stability. *** drive theories cannot explain all motivation homeostasis appears irrelevant to some human motives (e. g. stopping for ice-cream after seeing an advertisement advertising the ice- cream). Incentive theories propose that external stimuli regulate motivational states. Incentives: external goal that has the capacity to motivate behaviour: drive and incentive models of motivation are often contrasted as push-versus-pull theories. Human motives and those of other species are products of evolution; natural selection favours behaviours that maximize reproductive success passing on genes to the next generation.