PSYB30H3 Chapter 7: Chapter 7 psyb30.docx
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People have inside of them wants, desires, aims and intentions. People act upon these wants producing behavior. The root word of motivation refers to movement. We have the need to pursue necessary goals. Characteristic adaptations are more specific and particular aspects of psychological individuality that are contextualized in time place or social role. Characteristic adaptations make up level 2 of personality. Motives and goals are one class of characteristic adaptations they are those aspects of personality that speak directly to that people want things and they act upon those wants. The most influential psychologist on the 20th century was sigmund freud. He was the prime inventor of psychoanalysis the heart of the psychoanalytic view of personality is, freud"s theory of motivation. There are four basic parts to the theory: determinism, drive, conflict, the unconscious (1)forces that we have little control determine all human behavior and experience.
