Examples of drive in the following topics:
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- Drive-reduction theory distinguishes between primary and secondary drives.
- Secondary drives are associated with primary drives because the satisfaction of secondary drives indirectly satisfies primary drives.
- Secondary drives become associated with primary drives through classical conditioning.
- Drives are thought to underlie all behavior in that behaviors are only conditioned, or learned, if the reinforcement satisfies a drive.
- Individuals faced with more than one need at the same time experience multiple drives, and research has shown that multiple drives can lead to more rapid learning than a single drive.
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- Emotion is often the driving force behind motivation, both positive or negative.
- Motivation is an inner drive to behave, or act, in a certain manner.
- This drive allows us to satisfy inner conditions such as wishes, desires, and goals.
- Motivation is commonly broken into drives and motives.
- Emotion is often the driving force behind motivation, positive or negative.
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- Arousal theory expands upon drive-reduction theory by considering levels of arousal as potential motivators.
- The purpose of biological drives is to correct disturbances of homeostasis.
- According to drive-reduction theory, the body is motivated to engage in whatever behavior is necessary to fulfill an unsatisfied drive.
- Arousal theory expands upon drive-reduction theory by taking into account levels of arousal as potential motivators.
- These individuals are more likely to engage in risky behaviors like driving fast, riding roller coasters, and other activities that get their adrenaline pumping.
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- The humanistic perspective of personality theory is a holistic psychological perspective that attributes human characteristics and actions to free will and an innate drive for self-actualization .
- Human self-actualization becomes the most meaningful drive a life can acquire.
- This desire drives personality development.
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- Motivations are commonly separated into drives and motives.
- Drives are primarily biological, like thirst, hunger, sleepiness, and the need to reproduce—all of which lead us to seek out and take part in certain activities.
- Drives are believed to originate within a person and may not require external stimuli to encourage behavior.
- Both drives and motives can be manipulated by stimulation and deprivation.
- Define motivation in terms of drives, motives, and intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivators
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- The id is present at birth, completely unconscious, and seeks after pleasure, or human drives, desires, and impulses.
- In psychoanalytic theory, humans are described as having sexual and aggressive tendencies and drives.
- These tendencies are governed by unconscious and irrational forces that react using instinctual and biological drives.
- Thus, in psychoanalytical theory, human behavior is deterministic and human beings are reduced to animals merely attempting to control primal drives that might go against social order and conduct.
- Freud believed that these drives were universal to humankind.
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- Sexual motivation, often referred to as libido, is a person's overall sexual drive or desire for sexual activity.
- As discussed in the previous concept, hormones such as testosterone and estrogen affect the sex drive biologically.
- Many religions emphasize control over one's sex drive and sexual desire, or dictate the time or condition in which sexuality can be expressed.
- Factors such as stress, anxiety, fatigue, level of intimacy with one's partner, outside distractions, physical health, drugs or alcohol use, and mental illnesses such as depression, can all have an effect on sex drive.
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- What balance we strike in any given situation determines how we will resolve the conflict between two overarching behavioral tendencies: our biological aggressive and pleasure-seeking drives vs. our socialized internal control over those drives.
- Across these five stages, the child is presented with different conflicts between their biological drives (id) and their social and moral conscience (supereg0) because their biological pleasure-seeking urges focus on different areas of the body (what Freud called "erogenous zones").
- According to Freud, the job of the ego is to balance the aggressive/pleasure-seeking drives of the id with the moral control of the superego.
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- Implicit attentional capture is important to understand when driving, because while you might not be aware of the effect a stimulus like loud music or an uncomfortable temperature is having on your driving, your performance will nevertheless be affected.
- Even when you are focused on driving, your attention may still implicitly capture other information, such as movement on the GPS screen, which can affect your performance.