Hello. This is my paper for Psycology class.
Please correct any gramma mistakes I made.
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This is a woman’s success weight loss story from a TV Show. Her name is
Jen. She is in her early thirty. She was heavy most of her life. All the women
in her family are over 200 pounds, so she figured her inherit genes to be
overweight. Also, her mother is a great baker so she used to snacking on
cookies and pies all the time. After graduated from college her first job was
medical therapist. She saw the devastating effects of excess weight, like diabetes,
heart disease and stroke. She said that she learned all health risks of being
overweight at school but when she actually working with patients, it spurred
her to break unhealthy habits. She decided to start exercise. At first, she walks
ten minutes then run five minutes. By the end of her fifteen-week program, she
able to run thirty minutes nonstop and lost total of twenty pounds. At the same
time she began write a food journal to improve her diet. It really helps her
more aware of what she ate before it she ate when she bored and stressed, so
she start eating less junk food and more fruits and veggies. Soon after, she
was hired by a new hospital and met very fitness-oriented co-workers. She
joined a group that runs every day, they kept her motivated. After two years
she dropped thirty more pounds she feels much better about her self and
confident with her health. Moreover, she engaged to a handsome man who very attracted
to her healthy looking. Even after losing the weight, she did not ease up on
exercise and tried new programs such as aerobic and yoga. She also signed up
for running races. She said she kept setting new goals.
First motivation concept is
drive-reduction theory; the idea that a physical need creates an aroused state
that drives the organism to reduce the need. When Jen exercises she
became thirsty. According to drive reduction theory, she drinks water in order
to reduce her thirsty. Second motivation concept is optimum arousal theory. Humans
not only motivated by physical needs also, we action that produced tension, not
reduced it. Even after she reached her target weight, she continues to exercise
and even signed up for running races. Third, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs; once
our lower-level needs are met for example, basic physiological needs, safety
needs, belongingness and love needs. We are prompted to satisfy our
higher-level needs such as, esteem needs and self-actualization needs.
For Jen, her lower-level needs are met; she got basic needs for food, safe home
and fished her education then got a good job. After saw patients who suffers
because of excess weight then she began to worries about her own health. Last motivation
concept is sexual motivation. It is nature’s clever way to making people
procreate, thus enabling our species’ survival. When two people feel attracted,
they hardly stop to think of themselves as guide by their genes. Therefore,
Jen and her fiancé attracted each other and they engaged.