PSYC 332 Chapter 6-10: The-Art-and-Science-of-Personality-Development-FINAL
20 Apr 2018
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Chapter 6 the motivational agenda: what agents want. The question of motivation is the question of what moves behavior what sets behavior into motion. We set forth the goal of getting what we want. We develop a plan in order to get it. For freud, the ultimate motives in human life were sex (eros) and aggression (thanatos: like hunger, drives for sexual expression and the release of aggressive energy build up over time, freud argued. Within the constraints set up by society and the superego, people act upon their unconscious sexual and aggressive urges, often disguising and sublimating these drives into more or less socially acceptable behaviors, and into symptoms. Henry murray developed a famous list of about 20 psychogenic needs that regularly energize and direct human behavior: these include the motivations for achievement, affiliation, dominance, nurturance, order, play, and avoiding harmful situations.
