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| Physiological and psychological need or desire that energizes and directs behavior |
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| 3 Characteristics of Motivation |
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- Energized: Need the energy
- Direct energy toward a goal
- Change intensities of feeling in reaching goal
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(McDougall)
(Evolutionary approach) |
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| Unlearned bioloical force that arives behavior |
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| Innate bio that predisposes aspecies to behave in accrtain way to certain stimuli |
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| Drive Reduction Theory (Hull) |
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Have a need results in drive which motivates organism toward homeostasis
- Need: lacking biological state (food, sex, water)
- Drive: State of tension that motivates actions to reduce it
- Homeostasis: Body desires a balanced state
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| Icentive Theory (Skinner) |
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- Environ that reinforce of reward behavior motrvate behavior
- Incentives are external (pulling)
- Drives are internal (pushing)
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For surival and physical well being
Example: food, sex, oxygen... |
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