PSYC 2230 Chapter 7: CHAPTER 7 motivation notes.docx
4 Jul 2014
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Chapter 7: hedonism and sensory stimulation: hedonism as seeking pleasure and avoidance of pain, early greek philosophers democritus/epicurus during the platonic era agreed we behave in order to receive pleasure, hobbes believe all actions are motivated by desire for pleasure and to avoid pain, spencer influenced by darwin proposed that pleasurable behaviors have survival value, are adaptive, have evolved, and that random responses that led to pain were reduced in probability. Thorndike"s law of effect in psychology: troland believed that the nervous system is attuned to pleasurable and aversive events, beneception occurs when pleasant feelings arise by stimuli, nociception occurs when unpleasant feelings arise; and finally, neutroception occurs when feelings are neither + or , bebe centre said instructions can change the perceived pleasantness or unpleasantness of stimuli.
