What do you get motivated by?
Motivation: A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.
For me, in the long run, by my dreams and what i want to accomplish but from day to day, i love reading the little inspirational quotes. Those are one of my biggest motivators.
Motivation: A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.
- Instinct Theory: We are motivated by our inborn automated behaviors. ( But instincts only explains why we do a small fraction of our behavior).
- Drive- Reduction Theory: The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need.
- The need is usually to maintain homeostasis.
- Pushed by our needs and also pulled by our incentives. (A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior.
Abraham Maslow said that we are motivated by our needs and all needs are not created equal. We are driven to satisfy our lower needs first.
Hunger is physiological and psychological.
- Biological basis of hunger: hunger does NOT come from our stomach, it comes from the brain, the hypothalamus.
Hypothalamus
Lateral Hypothalamus Ventromedial Hypothalamus
When stimulated, it makes When stimulated you feel full
you hungry.
When lesioned (destroyed) you will When lesioned, you will never
never be hungry again. feel full again.
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