Chapter 9 Outline

How Motivational States Affect Behavior

  • Motivation versus learning
  • Does Drive merely energize?
  • Is motivated behavior a response to need?

Anticipating Reward and Punishment

  • Bait and switch
  • The Hullian response: Incentive motivation
  • Frustration
  • Another paradoxical reward effect
  • Partial reinforcement and persistence
  • Motivation by expectancies
  • General and specific outcome expectancies
  • What does it all mean?

Dynamic Effects of Motivating Stimuli

  • Opponent-process theory
  • Emotions in social attachment
  • A further look at addiction
  • Conclusion
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