PSYC 2230 Chapter : Ch 1.docx

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

Document Summary

Motivation: forces acting on within an organism to initiate and direct behaviour. Forces acting on or within an organism to initiate and direct behaviour. Take food away as a source of motivation. Concept of motivation helps us understand the change in the animal"s behavior (assuming that some other alternative cannot better explain the change) Intervening variable: is a concept developed by a researcher that serves to link a stimulus and a response and helps to relates the two. Motivation is a performance variable enough motivation is present, behavior is performed; Activation: is most easily seen in the production of behavior. If no overt behaviour is observed then motivation maybe insufficient to trigger behavior. Absence does not mean that no motivation is present for man motivational states changes in motivation do lead to changes in over behaviour. 2nd characters is persistence and 3rd is vigor. Direction: often considered an index of motivational states.