PSYC 2230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Psychosexual Development, Toyota Electronic Modulated Suspension, Estrous Cycle

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2230
• Professor: Frank Marchese

Document Summary

Drive refers to an energized state arising out of need that propels organism toward a goal that satisfies the need and reduces the drive: drive: arises out of specific need, drive is channeled into general increase (arousal) in behaviour, that brings organism, drive induces responses that reduce need and drive, responses that lead to drive reduction are learned modes of conduct, early formulations: freud in early 1900s used drive concept (triev) as a moving fore, as energy that arouses organism and initiates behaviour, drive (d) as a psychic energy that accumulates in the personality structure of the i d. Increase in excitation is unpleasurable: freud said moving force (drive) has four characteristics is strength of force and stronger the force the more motivated, pressure, aim, object of moving force is satisfaction course of life but moving force remains the same.