PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Blood Sugar, Vaginal Lubrication, Erection

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

Document Summary

Chapter 10: motivation and emotion (textbook notes) pages 439 479. Introduction: motivation: study of the processes involved in goal-directed behaviour this behaviour is often associated with specific emotions (e. g. receiving results from a test; different emotions felt depending on the grade), motivation + emotion often linked! Motivational theories and concepts: motives: needs, wants, interests, and desires propelling people in certain directions. Incentive theories: 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. Drive theories emphasize how internal states of tension push people in certain directions (source of motivation lies inside the organism) Example: hunger pushes you internally to go eat something. Incentive theories emphasize how external stimuli pull people in certain directions (source of motivation lies outside the organism; environment). Therefore, incetive models don"t operate according to the principal of homeostasis.