Identify the five core social motives and explain how they affect the field of social psychology.…
3) Some psychologists believe that behavior is motivated by the body's attempts to achieve a state…
4) The Yerkes- Dodson Law states that performance is best under the conditions of high arousal; since we are most focused and alert at these times.…
3. What are the five sets of needs in Maslow’s hierarchy? How are a person’s needs related to motivation?…
• To be an instinct, a complex behavior must have a fixed pattern throughout a species and be unlearned.…
Resources: Ch. 7 & 8 of Discovering Psychology and Motivation and Emotion – Interactive Tutorial…
which also affects behavior. They push us to take some kind of action whether we are aware of it or not. Psychologists have put these behaviors into 3 categories: Arousal Theory, Drive-Reduction Theory, and Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation (Morris, 2012).…
-Hypothalamus is the part of the brain that controls hunger and the motivation to eat.…
4. Drive-reduction Theory: the idea that physiological need creates an aroused tensions state (a drive) that motives an organism to satisfy the need…
5. A behavior pattern that is unlearned, and found in almost all members of a species is called _____. p. 423…
chapter 7 chapter outline module 22 Explaining Motivation Instinct Approaches: Born to Be Motivated Drive-Reduction Approaches: Satisfying Our Needs Arousal Approaches: Beyond Drive Reduction Incentive Approaches: Motivation’s Pull Try It! Do You Seek Out Sensation? Cognitive Approaches: The Thoughts Behind Motivation Maslow’s Hierarchy: Ordering Motivational Needs…
* Principle that performance on a task is best when arousal level is appropriate to the difficulty of the task:…
* Maslow’s Needs Hierarchy says that as a person satisfies a lower level need, the next higher need in the hierarchy becomes the primary motivator and remains so even if never satisfied.…
After twenty plus years, I returned to school to acquire my degree and further my education. My friends and family could not understand why I wanted to take time so much time out of my life to do this. They would tell me, “you already have an established career”. They could not understand what drove me to take this road. They felt I was missing out on life. So after reading this chapter which covered several distinct theories of motivation, I asked myself, where did the energy, the drive, or the direction come from? Being true to myself, the answer was, motivation that came from the social forces that education is required to keep moving up the corporate ladder. I want to be successful and be seen as a motivated person. I also want to prove to myself and others that I take both my education and my career very seriously. According to Maslow, nobody has ever reached the peak of the hierarchy of needs pyramid. We all may strive for it, and some may even get close, but no one has achieved full self-actualization. Self-actualization means a complete understanding of who you are, a sense of completeness, of being the best person you could possibly be. To have achieved this goal is to stop living, for what is there to strive for if you have learned everything about yourself, if you have experienced all that you can, and if there is nothing left for you to grow emotionally, intellectually, or spiritually. Throughout our lives, we work toward achieving the top of the pyramid, self actualization, or the realization of all of our potential. As we move up the pyramid, however, things get in the way which slow us down and often knocks us backward. Imagine in my own life, as I'm working toward the respect and recognition of my colleagues and suddenly finding myself out of work and homeless. Suddenly, my education is not that important anymore. I'm forced backward and can no longer focus my attention on my work or education,…
Instinct Theory – organisms are born with a set of biologically based behaviour essential for the survival of the species.…