1. Do Now
What motivates you to do something?

2. Work
Work on Q1 in class.
I will lecture on it the last part of class

3. Unit 8A Motivation & Emotion: Motivation
Motivational Concepts

4. Motivation
Motivation: a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior
EX: I eat (behavior) because I’m hungry (need that is directing behavior)
EX: I have sex (behavior) because it sounds pleasurable (desire that directs behavior)

5. Instincts & Evolutionary Psychology
Instinct: a complex behavior that is patterned throughout a species and is unlearned
EX: Humans- an infant sucking a thumb as a reflex
EX: Animals- salmon fish return to the same place they were born
Instincts don’t explain all motives
Genes play a role in behavior and help explain similarities between a species

6. Drives & Incentives
Drive-reduction theory: the idea that our body’s basic needs (what would those be?) creates an aroused state (a drive) that motivates organisms to satisfy that need
Homeostasis: balanced internal state
EX: blood sugar levels or temperature
Need
Drive
Reduce drive

7. Drives & Incentives cont.
Not only are we pushed by our needs but we are pulled by incentives
Incentive: a positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior
EX: the smell of pizza (environmental factor) can motivate us to eat (behavior)
this can be learned
They motivate behavior

8. Optimum Arousal
Human motivation aims not to eliminate arousal but to seek optimum levels of arousal
When our biological needs are met we are driven to experience stimulation and hunger for information

9. Hierarchy of Motives Abraham Maslow’s pyramid of human needs
At the bottom are our physiological needs and the further up you go the more psychological the needs become
EX: if you need to go pee, does that not begin to preoccupy your thoughts?

10. Today Introduce Project Quiz on Q1 tomorrow? HW= Work on Project
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Due Monday 12/12
Quiz on Q1 tomorrow?
HW= Work on Project