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Psychology of Motivation

Psychology of Motivation . Myers Ch. 7A Daniel Pink, "Drive" . What motivates you?. Five theories. 1) Hedonic principle: experience pleasure/avoid pain Very Freudian/psychoanalytic Thanatos /Eros. Five Theories. 2) Instinct Theory—evolutionary/innate behavior Rooting instinct .

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Psychology of Motivation

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  1. Psychology of Motivation Myers Ch. 7A Daniel Pink, "Drive"

  2. What motivates you?

  3. Five theories • 1) Hedonic principle: experience pleasure/avoid pain • Very Freudian/psychoanalytic • Thanatos/Eros

  4. Five Theories • 2) Instinct Theory—evolutionary/innate behavior • Rooting instinct

  5. Five theories • 3) Drive Theory –we are motivated to reduce a drive to return to homeostasis...i.e., food, sex, temperature • Hull’s drive reduction theory • What is NOT explained by this theory?

  6. Watching sad movies • Climbing mountains • Attending college • Read books • Etc...

  7. Five Theories • 4) Arousal Theory—we are driven to experience stimulation—even if we are not hungry, have no desire to mate, and are perfectly physiologically content....we still do stuff. • 8A-2 and 8A-3

  8. Five theories • 5) Humanistic Theory: humans strive to obtain self-actualization • Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs • 8A-4 and 8A-5

  9. The Drive for hunger • “Alive Clip”

  10. The drive for hunger • The hypothalamus • Lateral hypothalamus—on—ghrelin • Ventromedial hypothalamus—off—leptin

  11. What happens when we destroy the ventromedial hypothalamus?

  12. What happens when we destroy the lateral hypothalamus

  13. Eating disorders • Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa-- • Multiple factors *Cognitive • 1) distorted body image • 2) feelings of control *Biological—primarily females *Social—primarily females

  14. Eating disorders • Obesity—the average American is 18 pounds heavier than they were in the 1970s. • 40% of American women are too heavy to enlist in the military • In 1991 no state had an obesity rate of higher than 20%. Now CO is the only state below. • Causes? Biological, Social, evolutionary... • Hand outs 8A-7, 8, 9, & 10.

  15. Sexual Motivation • Johnson and Masters: Forty Studies • Sexual Attraction

  16. The need to belongAron Ralston--127 Hours

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