PSYC 2230 Chapter 1: Lecture:textook notes chapter 1

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

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Motivation: concepts and measurement- chapter 1: concept of motivation(m): forces acting on or within an organism to initiate action p. 4. Approach avoidance conflic- motive to approach, motive to avoid- desire to move forward, fear to do so. Desire overrides fear, move forward - fear overrides desire, move back. Measure direction in terms of a preference - test of possible choices p. 7. Post-traumatic stress disorder- hypervigilance - emotion associated with beh. Pressure, psychobalsantic skin response, pupil dilation - observe person change of breathing. Polygraph is able to record all that ^ -special devices, to record a number of covert activities associated with motivation that is arousal - by def. Motivation emplies arousal: categories of analysis: study motivation from different view points, nomothetic: a search for general laws by studying large groups. Results that hold for one group may apply to other groups - p. 7and 8 - concentrate group that summarizes general motivaton.