Glossary of terms used on this site
Glossaries
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| ID |
ID-- (Latin for "it", German: Es)the one of the three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that is completely unconscious and is the source of psychic energy derived from instinctual needs and drives — compare
ego
,
superego
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| Incentive motivation |
A psychological theory of how goal-direction is controlled by the stimulus properties of the target. Incentive motivation is one of a number of potential psychological mechanisms for controlling the direction of motivated behavior. Drive reduction and opponent processes are examples of other potential mechanisms that might control behavior independently of incentive processes
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| Incentive salience | Incentive salience. Refers to the attractiveness of external stimuli, events, places and their mental representations; their ability to capture attention. The term, incentive salience, applies always to the perception of external events and to internal representations of those events. Incentive salience must be actively generated (attributed) by the brain and assigned to particular perceptions and representations, based on their association with past activation of mesotelencephalic dopamine systems. Incentive salience is a psychological process that transforms the perception of stimuli, imbuing them with salience, making them attractive, ‘wanted’, incentive stimuli.
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| interoception |
Interoception
-- sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body
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