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The Physiological mechanisms of motivation

Title
The Physiological mechanisms of motivation / edited by Donald W. Pfaff.
Publication
New York : Springer-Verlag, ©1982.

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Additional Authors
Pfaff, Donald W., 1939-
Description
xiv, 482 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Abstract: Fifteen topics developed from a university course on behavioral issues and physiological techniques related to motivation are organized for behavioral scientists under 4 central headings. The central themes discuss motivational concepts (drive, reinforcement, reward, incentive, arousal, emotion); hunger and thirst (ranging from taste as an incentive motivation model and the physiology of thirst, to the problem of motivation during satiety); thermal, maternal, and sexual motivation (including human and animal studies); and the difficult paradox of approach vs avoidance in motivation and emotion. The latter category includes discussion of opponent processes in acquired motivation; the possible association of brain-stimulated reward and autonomic function control; brain mechanisms in hedonic processes; psychological stress; and pain as a model for motivational systems. (wz).
Subject
  • Motivation (Psychology) > Physiological aspects
  • Motivation (Psychology)
  • Motivation
  • Motivation (Psychology) > Physiological aspects
  • Physiologie
  • Aufsatzsammlung
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
ISBN
  • 0387906509
  • 9780387906508
  • 3540906509
  • 9783540906506
LCCN
81018467
OCLC
  • ocm07975497
  • 7975497
  • SCSB-49080
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library