University:
Loyola University Maryland
Course:
PY 222 | Cognitive Psychology
Academic year:

2023
Views:

79

Pages:

2
Author:

Natasya J.

Non-Survival Needs We numans do a good job of taking basic needs and making them symbolle. The brain never seems content with leaving things alone. For example, we have a psychological need for change. There is always some- thing "new" that we want to do, such as rearranging our rooms, changing the decoration or the colors. and so forth. This constant need for celebral (brain) changes is a strong need, even though it is not critical to survival. CuriosIty Motive → The strong psychological need to see new, ood. or different things is not cofined to humans but is also found on a limited basis in "lower" animals. We used to have a German shepherd, for example, that drove us crazy with this curlosity motive. Naming it doesn't help. He learned to open closet doors to find out what was new in there. We might as well not even nave had doors on the closet, because ne would open them every tme he was in the house. Discipline was not a solution ; He would have nad to be beaten into submission to obey, and we were too softhearted to do that. In humans, one of the most nonce able bits of evidence of the curlosity motive is the fact that even in rush- hour traffk, people will slow down and jam things up hopelessly in order to view even the most minor accident.