Motivation :: a biobehavioural approach /

Provides the reader with an understanding of why individuals exhibit certain behaviors, and what causes these actions. Roderick Wong presents an analysis of motivated behavior such as sexual activity, parental behavior, food selection, and fear or aggression, from a biological perspective. Each chap...

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1. Verfasser: Wong, Roderick
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Zusammenfassung:Provides the reader with an understanding of why individuals exhibit certain behaviors, and what causes these actions. Roderick Wong presents an analysis of motivated behavior such as sexual activity, parental behavior, food selection, and fear or aggression, from a biological perspective. Each chapter focuses on the individual systems underlying specific motivational states that result in motivated acts. The author discusses similarities, differences, and integration between these motivational systems throughout the volume. Using a framework derived from research and theory from animal behavior and comparative psychology, he analyzes relevant issues in human motivation such as mate choice, nepotism, attachment and independence, sensation-seeking, obesity, and parent-offspring conflict.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (ix, 281 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-270) and indexes.
ISBN:0511012764
9780511012761
0511038283
9780511038280
0511351321
9780511351327
9780511612695
0511612699
9786610955817
6610955816

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