PSYC 332 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Kenneth Spence, Clark L. Hull, Carl Jung

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 332
• Professor: Richard Koestner

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Question of motivation = question of what moves behavior, what sets behavior into motion. By the time we are in kindergarten we intuitively sense that motivation is about what we want and what we believe to be true in the world. Child"s theory of mind asserts that agents have desires in their minds and that they act upon them. By second or third grade, we understand that we may need to formulate a plan in order to get what we want --> plans help us achieve goals. Same drive as other animals do in order to survive and reproduce i. Human behavior motivated by basic needs, which give rise to specific and socially contoured wants that we translate into conscious and unconscious life goals. Clark hull and kenneth spence: all behaviors in humans and animals can be traced to efforts to satisfy basic drives like hunger, thirst, sex. Freud: ultimate human motive in life is sex (eros) and aggression (thanatos)