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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | BF503 .P49 1982 | Off-site |
Details
- 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
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- ISBN
- 0387906509
- 9780387906508
- 3540906509
- 9783540906506
- LCCN
- 81018467
- OCLC
- ocm07975497
- 7975497
- SCSB-49080
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library