Motivational Concepts

Gavin Hassel

Motivational Concepts

• Drive Reduction theory explains that when a phsyiological need increases, so does our psychological drive to reduce that need. Drive Reduction is one of the ways our bodies strive for homeostasis.
• Yerkes-Dodson Law states that moderat arousal leads to optimal performace. Optimal arousal levels depend on the task, with more difficult tasks requiring lower arousal for best performance.
• Instinct theory, now replaced by evolutionary perspective, focused on genetic predispositions as the source of our motivations. But many more behaviors are directed by both physiological needs and psychological wants

• Abraham Maslow was a famous American Psychologist that developed the 5 stages of the Hierarchy of needs. At the base of the pyramid are our needs such as food and water, and at the top the are the self-transcendence needs.
• Clark Hull was the psychologist that proposed the drive reduction theory. He was also well known for his attempt to give mathematical expressions to psychological theory.

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"It is necessary for a man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body." -Abraham Maslow

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