Here are my notes on this topic:
1. Drive-reduction theory
- Need or desire
- energizes and directs behavior
- Freud
- physiological need creates increased tension or pressure (drive)
- Drive motivates organism to satisfy need
- Seek homeostasis
- Balance
- Constant internal state
- Regulation of body chemistry
- Dollard. & Miller
- Conflict
- Approach-approach
- Avoidance-avoidance
- Approach-avoidance
- Double approach avoidance
- Frustration hypothesis
- Incentives
- positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior
- Instinct
- complex unlearned behavior
- rigidly patterned throughout a species
2. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
- Self-actualization
- Esteem needs
- Belongingness and love needs
- Safety needs
- Physiological needs
3. Hunger
- Set point
- Metabolic rate
- Eating disorders
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Underweight
- More women than men
- Most common in adolescence
- 30% die
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Binge-purge
- Vomit
- Laxative
4. Sexual Response Cycle
- Excitement
- Plateau
- Orgasm
- Resolution
- Refractory period
- Estrogen
- Imaginative stimuli
- External stimuli
- Physiological readiness
- Sexual disorders
- Premature ejaculation
- Orgasmic disorder
- Sexual orientation
5. Achievement motivation
- Intrinsic-extrinsic motivation
- Theory X = workers are lazy
- Theory Y = motivated by self esteem & creativity
