#AP Psychology: Motivation - The Night Before 🚀

Hey! Let's make sure you're feeling super confident about motivation for tomorrow's exam. We'll break it down, connect the dots, and make it stick. You got this! 💪

#Table of Contents

1. Hunger Motivation 🍔
2. Sexual Motivation 💋
3. Social Motivation 🗣️
4. Final Exam Focus 🎯
5. Practice Questions 📝

#🍔 Hunger Motivation

Let's dive into the science of why we eat! It's way more than just a rumbling tummy.

#The Basics

• Washburn & Cannon's Experiment: Remember this classic? Stomach contractions were initially thought to be the sole cause of hunger, but it's more complex than that.
• Glucose: Your body's main energy source. When levels drop, hunger signals kick in.

#The Brain's Role

• Hypothalamus: The hunger control center!
  • ⬆️ Lateral Hypothalamus (LH): Stimulates hunger. Think Large Hunger. Produces orexin, a hunger-triggering hormone. Damage to LH = no desire to eat.
  • ⬇️ Ventromedial Hypothalamus (VMH): Stimulates satiety (feeling full). Damage to VMH = never feeling full.

• Other Players:
  • Thyroid: Regulates metabolism.
  • Pancreas: Regulates blood glucose (insulin).

#Hormones & Neurotransmitters

• ⬆️ Ghrelin: Increases hunger; secreted by an empty stomach.
• ⬆️ Orexin: Increases hunger; secreted by the hypothalamus.
• ⬇️ PYY: Decreases hunger; digestive tract hormone.
• ⬇️ Leptin: Decreases hunger; protein hormone secreted by fat cells.
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