PSYC 4750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Drive Theory, Abraham Maslow, Operational Definition
5 Nov 2016
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Drives and needs as internal sources of motivation. Motivation comes from internal sources that push and from external forces that pull an individual. Internal motivation: drives and physiological and psychological needs. The combined push and pull of internal and external sources must exceed some threshold for behaviour to occur. When above the threshold behaviour occurs, when below it does not. Behaviour can result from little external motivation, provided there is a lot of internal motivation. Behaviour can occur with little internal motivation provided there is a lot of external motivation. Internal motivation is the disposition to perform a particular action. It can be created through depriving an organism of an incentive such as food, water, or visual stimulation. In other situations the disposition to respond is dormant, and it situational stimulus will arouse it. Physiological needs: deficits that exist in the material body or brain. Psychological needs: do not have any material existence and are mental or psychological in nature.
