PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Belongingness, Self-Actualization, Homeostasis
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They are goal directed behaviours motivated individuals keep working until they reach their goal. They vary from time to time and one individual to the next. If an individual varies the behaviour and persists until reaching a goal, it is a motivated behaviour. There are several frameworks that are used in psychology to understand what motivation is. A drive is a state of unrest or irritation that energizes one behaviour after another until one of them removes the irritation (example: splinter) Drive-reduction theory proposes that animals strive to reduce their drives as much as possible. By extension, drive-reduction theory would predict that once all needs have been met, the organism would become inactive. People seek variety and activity in life, not a condition of non-stimulation. The theory ignores the role of external stimulation. Interest in food depends not only on hunger but also on what foods are available.
