Psychology of Motivation

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