AP Psychology 2.1 Motivation and Emotion

necessarily drives are naturally occurring states that motivate us to

perform behaviors that help keep us alive like eating and drinking or [woman drinking and a girl eating an ice-cream]

starting a new show on netflix so according to drive reduction theory do

bodies want to return to a state of A arousal.. Well arousal is our body's response to

something, it's not a state that our bodies are actively trying to return to [Woman in a bedroom and the telephone rings]

in fact a state of arousal may also be a drive that our bodies are trying to

reduce. We can cross off A all right or is it C sleep, for some of you sleep may seem

like it's your natural state especially while you're sitting through calculus [classroom of students sleeping]

but this isn't what drive reduction theory refers to being sleepy is

actually a drive that may lead to sleep but sleep isn't the end goal in drive [Boy sleeping on a table]

reduction theories, let's get rid of C yeah, that was kind of tricky. How about

D incentive, okay so incentive isn't actually a state it's just something [A man wearing a balaclava robbing a store]

that motivates or encourages someone to do something, this is definitely not what

drive theories all about so we can cross off D. Is it E thermoregulation well

thermoregulation is a process that allows the body to maintain its core [boy wearing shorts and t-shirt in a cold snowy forest]

internal temperature that 98.6 thing. Like sleep, an even internal temperature may

be achieved because of a specific drive but that isn't the only goal of drive [boy with a thermometer in his mouth in bed]

reduction theory we can cross off E from our list leaving us with B

homeostasis; homeostasis is basically known as our bodies baseline or normal [girl meditating on a mountain]

state drive reduction theory states that when we experience a drive that's our

body telling us that we need to do something like eat or drink to get back [girl thinking about drinking]

to our baseline state so the correct answer is B homeostasis so we've learned

a little about drive reduction theory namely that it's all about getting our

bodies back to normal or their baseline state our baseline state is three cups [girl walking with a mug of coffee]

of coffee deep but well everyone's different

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