PSYC 2230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Discrete Event Simulation, Hedonism, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2230
• Professor: Pauline Charlton

Document Summary

Perhaps the question should be what causes activity not only behaviour, but also our thoughts, feelings and dreams? : within the individual motivation varies. When motivation varies, so does behaviour, as people show high or low effort and their persistence is strong or fragile. Subject matter the point of a motivation theory is to explain what gives behaviour its energy and its direction the study of motivation concerns those processes that give behaviour its energy and direction. Energy implies that behaviour has strength (intense and persistent) Motives are internal processes (needs, cognitions and emotions) that energize the individuals approach and avoidance tendencies. External events are environmental, social and cultural offerings that attract or repel the individual to engage or not in a particular course of action. Internal motives: a motive is an internal process that energizes and directs behaviour. Emotions organize and orchestrate four interrelated aspects of experience: Feelings: subjective, verbal descriptions of emotional experience.