PSYB30H3 : PSYB30-Chapter 7.docx
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Motivation: are wants, desires, aims and intensions; people act upon these wants, producing behaviour. The root word refers to movement, and it"s what energizes and directs human behaviour, what we want is what we need. Motives and goals are one class of characteristic adaptation. Freud"s theory of motivation consists of 1) determinism, 2) drive, 3) conflict and 4) the unconscious. Forces determine all human behaviour and experience; these forces exist within us and are important for drives for sexuality and aggression. Forces that determine all our behaviour and experience come in conflict with one another and cause anxiety. We do not know what those forces are, they are unconscious to us. Sexuality and aggression are the ultimate human motivations. There are two sets of instincts or drives: 1) sexuality and all other life instincts (eros) and 2) aggression and all other death instincts (thanatos) Lives are driven at an unconscious level.
