Motivation Emotion What motivates you Chapter 13 Definitions

Motivation + Emotion What motivates you? Chapter 13

Definitions • motivation: the drive to seek a goal, such as food, water, friends • Instinct: genetically transmitted patterns of behavior across species UNLEARNED

Physical Motivators • attaining pleasure and avoiding pain are BIG motivators • in the brain, you find the centers of pain, pleasure, fear, rage, hunger, thirst, sex, aggression, excitement

Motivation § Drive-Reduction Theory § physiological need creates aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates to satisfy the need Need behavior Drive-reducing

Motivational Forces • Drive: force that pushes organism into action • Goal: the target • Homeostasis: balanced internal state (our main goal)

Motivation Theories Humanistic Sociocultural • People motivated by the conscious desire for personal growth • Culture determines how needs are met • Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs – Coffee or tea? – Hot dogs or tacos? – Fist bumps or cheek kisses?

HUNGER • When depressed, stomach acid levels drop, salivation slows (not hungry) • When angry, acid levels rise, cause nausea

Motivation: Hunger The hypothalamus controls eating

Where do hunger signals come from? • 1. low glucose levels (blood sugar level) • 2. Chemical receptors on the tongue • 3. Taste (important at the beginning of eating)

Weight factors • Obesity from inaccurate internal cues • Rely on external cues (how food looks and tastes, not hunger feelings) • Stress eating • Set point: determines individual weight

Weight, continued • evidence that weight based on heredity and metabolism • Food should NEVER be a motivator for children

Thirst • body 65 -70% water- we need it always!!!! • Signals: dry tongue • Water intake is learned

2 Types of Motivation • INTRINSIC: Motivation that comes from within – Leads to more creativity and happiness • EXTRINSIC: Motivation that comes from the outside – Leads to detachment and negativity

Non-survival Needs

CURIOSITY MOTIVE • need to see new, odd, different things • the need to solve problems • the more we know about something, the more we want to know

MANIPULATION MOTIVE • drive to handle and use objects • be stimulated by your environment

STIMULATION • need physical stimulation to develop properly • CONTACT COMFORT: happiness from soft physical stimulation • studies done point to a physical need for contact in infants. . . leads to permanent scars (physical and emotional)

MASLOW'S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS • We need to meet the basic needs before we can achieve the higher levels • Food is more important than education

Exit Slip What kind of non-survival motivation is featured in the photo above? State your rationale.