PSY 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 33: Thermostat, Takers, Homeostasis

• School: Drexel University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 111
• Professor: Megan L Meyer

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: need or desire that energizes and directs behavior. 1: drive-reduction theory focuses on how we respond to our inner pushes, arousal theory focuses on finding the right level of stimulation, abraham maslow"s hierarchy of needs focuses on the priority of some needs over others. Instincts and evolutionary psychology: rather than explaining human behaviors, the early instinct theorists were simply. Compex behavior that has a fixed pattern throughout a species and be. C: example: infants have this reflect for rooting and sucking. Instinct theory failed to explain most human motives, but its underlying assumption continues in evolutionary psychology: example : psychologists might apply this perspective to explain one"s human similarities, animals" biological predispositions, and the influence of evolution on our phobias. Drives and incentives: the original instinct theory was replaced by drive-reduction theory . : the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused state that drives the organism to reduce the need: homeostasis .