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AP Psychology 2.2 Motivation and Emotion. How would an instinct theorist explain why a pregnant woman might crave a steak?

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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by steak, doesn't matter how you [two guys sat together as a steak grills in the background]

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grill it you're doing it wrong. How would an instinct theorist explain why a

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pregnant woman might crave a steak and here are the potential answers all right..

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[mumbling]

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all right so what is instinct theory? well we feel [man thinking about instinct theory]

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like we should just go with our gut on this one instinct theory states that all

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organisms are born with innate biological tendencies that help them

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survive this theory suggests that all behaviors are driven by instinct these [dog digging in the park]

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instincts could include a newborn sea turtle crawling towards the ocean, a bird

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migrating in the winter or a dog peeing on your brand-new rug how does he know? [dog pees on a rug and man appears crying]

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well so is the answer B biology takes over and all babies love meat..Well

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assuming you know anything at all that babies, you probably know that they come

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out of the womb with a desire for milk not a thick slab of sirloin it's safe to [baby staring at a piece of steak on a fork]

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say that babies do not instinctively crave red meat so we can cross off B.

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What about C; the woman's husband will love her more if she delivers a bigger

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baby well this may be true for some very weird couple out there somewhere it has [a couple and their baby staring up]

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nothing to do with instinct theory so we can get rid of C.. Maybe it's D the

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woman's doctor will reward her if she gains weight ahead of the next visit and

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we're not sure if we should really have to explain why this one is incorrect but [Doctor looks happy as woman shows up fatter for an appointment]

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again this would not be an instinct based response from the mother that were

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the case it would be most closely related to incentive theory we can cross

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D off our list so could it be E? The woman will be respected by her peers if

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it looks as if she was taking care of her fetus one last time this is not an

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instinctual response earning her peers approval would be great yes but we're [Woman asking if her colleagues respect her]

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not convinced that eating a steak is the only way to get the job done

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so we can cross off E.. A the fetus is screaming for iron which is found in

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steak, the mother's body responds to this need there we go now that's more like it [girl thinking the baby is craving steak]

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the fetus is being driven by a biological need for iron to aid in its

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development and the mother is instinctually responding to that need by

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craving steaks a food that contains large amounts of iron boom the correct

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answer is A. What we can see here is that instinct theory is not based on the [Lions together feeding]

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approval of others but on the idea that deep biological

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tendencies drive most behavior.. Still no word on what causes hipsters to make you

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listen to their music though [hipsters in a store listening to music]

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