Motivation and Emotion

Flashcards covering drive, incentive, and evolutionary approaches to understanding motivation.

Motives

The needs, wants, interests, and desires that push people in certain directions.

Motivation

The process that initiates, guides, and maintains goal-oriented behaviours

Homeostasis

A state of physiological equilibrium or stability that organisms seek to maintain.

Drive

A hypothetical, internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce this tension.

Incentive theories

The theory that proposes that external stimuli regulate motivational states.

Incentive

An external goal that has the capacity to motivate behavior.

Evolutionary Theories

The theory that the motives of humans and other species are products of evolution.

Natural Selection

The process whereby organisms having better adapted behaviours to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring; maximising reproductive success.

Affiliation Motive

The need for belongingness.