Drive And Homeostasis Contribute To Understanding Sexual Motivation
Question 1: Describe factors the guide decision making and explain how overconfidence, belief perseverance and framing can affect judgement.
When we make decisions we do so usually using concepts which are mental groupings of similar things (Myers & Dewall, 2004, p. 357). We draw our concepts from prototypes which are out best mental representation of something within a grouping. When I am at work, and a guest would like a room key, instead of asking the guest all of the names on the arrivals to find theirs, I would instead ask the room number. If I said all of the names until i reached the right one, this is an example of an algorithm, a systematic way to reach a resolution in problem solving. If i ask the guests name or room number instead, …show more content…
How well do the concepts of drive and homeostasis contribute to understanding sexual motivation?
Both sexual motivation, hunger and thirst are biological motivations, a desire that directs behaviour (Myers, 2004, p. 420). However unlike sexual motivation which drives us to pleasure and procreation, hunger and thirst are needed to survive.
In regards to the motivation behind hunger, drive reduction theory suggests that the bodys motivation to maintain homeostasis drives us to reduce our need for hunger or thirst. We can also be led by incentive such as passing a supermarket which will further increase the drive to eat. The act of eating is a drive reduction action. Needs and desires are prioritised, for instance, we can live longer without food than water to survive for a length of time. Abraham Maslow developed the Hierarchy of Needs in which six, basic to transcending needs were scaled (Huitt, 2007). Hunger, thirst and sexual needs are listed as basic needs, but sex could also be related with belonginess and love which is higher on Maslow's …show more content…
Describe Selye's General Adaption Syndrome, using and example of a situation that might be expected to lead to such a response. In addition, describe two constructive coping methods that would allow an individual in the situation to deal with the stressor.
When we react to stressor like a daily hassle which might be an untidy housemate, a life change like moving province or even a catastrophe like a flood, the body acts much in the same way to deal with all stressors. The fight or flight stress response system was first established by Walter Cannon who recognised a pattern of the sympathetic nervous system in times of stress (Cannon, 1914, p. 361). Hans Selye investigated further and found that the body has three phases of adaptation to stress over a longer period of time attempting to restore the body's homeostasis. The General Adaptation Syndrome, coined by Selye are called alarm, resistance and exhaustion stages (Selye, 1936, p. 32). It may experienced by someone who is going through a vicious divorce lasting a long period of
When we make decisions we do so usually using concepts which are mental groupings of similar things (Myers & Dewall, 2004, p. 357). We draw our concepts from prototypes which are out best mental representation of something within a grouping. When I am at work, and a guest would like a room key, instead of asking the guest all of the names on the arrivals to find theirs, I would instead ask the room number. If I said all of the names until i reached the right one, this is an example of an algorithm, a systematic way to reach a resolution in problem solving. If i ask the guests name or room number instead, …show more content…
How well do the concepts of drive and homeostasis contribute to understanding sexual motivation?
Both sexual motivation, hunger and thirst are biological motivations, a desire that directs behaviour (Myers, 2004, p. 420). However unlike sexual motivation which drives us to pleasure and procreation, hunger and thirst are needed to survive.
In regards to the motivation behind hunger, drive reduction theory suggests that the bodys motivation to maintain homeostasis drives us to reduce our need for hunger or thirst. We can also be led by incentive such as passing a supermarket which will further increase the drive to eat. The act of eating is a drive reduction action. Needs and desires are prioritised, for instance, we can live longer without food than water to survive for a length of time. Abraham Maslow developed the Hierarchy of Needs in which six, basic to transcending needs were scaled (Huitt, 2007). Hunger, thirst and sexual needs are listed as basic needs, but sex could also be related with belonginess and love which is higher on Maslow's …show more content…
Describe Selye's General Adaption Syndrome, using and example of a situation that might be expected to lead to such a response. In addition, describe two constructive coping methods that would allow an individual in the situation to deal with the stressor.
When we react to stressor like a daily hassle which might be an untidy housemate, a life change like moving province or even a catastrophe like a flood, the body acts much in the same way to deal with all stressors. The fight or flight stress response system was first established by Walter Cannon who recognised a pattern of the sympathetic nervous system in times of stress (Cannon, 1914, p. 361). Hans Selye investigated further and found that the body has three phases of adaptation to stress over a longer period of time attempting to restore the body's homeostasis. The General Adaptation Syndrome, coined by Selye are called alarm, resistance and exhaustion stages (Selye, 1936, p. 32). It may experienced by someone who is going through a vicious divorce lasting a long period of