Hunger Motivation Notes

Stomach contractions((pang) signals to the brain making us aware of our hunger), Body Chemistry(hormone-Ghrelin and Monitor Glucose Level), Hypothalamus(4 Fs-Food, Flight, fight, fortification)

What triggers hunger?

Lateral Hypothalamus

brings on hunger, destroy it, and the animals will starve

Ventromedical Hypothalamus(VMH)

depress hunger(stimulation), destory it and animals eats excessively.

Set Point Theory

predisposes us to keep our bodies at a steady weights is lost(go below set point) food intake increases and energy expenditure decreases. If weight is gained- food intake decreases, the body not only and adjusts food intake and energy output, it also adjusts its basal metabolic rate

External incentives-The Psychology of Hunger

Eat because triggered by the presence of food especially high calorie

Taste preference-The Psychology of Hunger

Body Chemistry and environmental factors together influence not only when we feel hunger but what we are hungry for.

What are other items that can influence hunger?

Eating by the “clock”, social eating, stress/depression eating patterns, other eating cues like holidays or when watching TV or movie

Anorexia nervosa

Normal-weigh person, losing weight continously and yet still feel overweight.

Bulimia nervosa

episodes of overeating, usually high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, fasting, or excessive excercise.

Binge eating disorder

recurrent overeating with out any type of “purging” that is in Bulimia

What are the different attitudes towards work?

Job(necessary way to make money), Career(opportunity to advance from one position to another) Calling(what I was meant to do)

Flow

an experience between apathy/boredom and stressed. Flow marks immersion into one’s work

Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Applies psychological principles to the work place

Personal Psychology

principles of selecting and evaluating workers

Organizational Psychology

studies hwo work environments influence worker motivation, satisfaction, and productivity.

Achievement motivation( need for achievement)

stable, learned characteristic in which satisfaction is obtained by striving for and altaining a level of excellence.

High Achievement Motivation

tend to choose challenging tasks yet tasks can be completely successful, avoiding situations in which success is easily obtained as well as those when success is unlikely.

Low achievement motivation

tend to motivated primarily by a desire to avoid failure so they will either do very easy tasks or extremely difficult tasks that no one could suceed at.

When is achievement motivation learned?

Tends to be learned in early childhood, especially from parents, more general cultural influences also affect level of achievement motivation

approach-approach conflict

choose between really good options win-win Ex: Date Night vs. Hanging out with friends.