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Motivation relates to the study of the processes involved in goal-directed behaviour. Our goal-directed behaviour is often associated with specific emotions thus motivation and emotion are often linked. Motives: needs, wants, interests, and desires that propel people in certain directions. This approach to understanding motivation was explored most fully by clark hull in the 1940s and. Hull"s concept of drive was derived from walter cannon"s observation that organisms seek to maintain homeostasis a state of physiological equilibrium or stability: e. g. human body temperature normally fluctuates around 37 degrees celsius. These actions are designed to move your body back to 37 degrees celsius. Drive theories apply the concept of homeostasis to behaviour. A drive: an internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce this tension, these unpleasant states of tension are viewed as disruptions of the preferred equilibrium.
