Drive Theory

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Caritas Institute of Higher Education

2013-2014

Psychology and Social Life

Sem2 GE079

Lecturer: Mr. Alastair To

Student: Chan Wing Hong
( HDAS Year 2) 1220024

Individual written assignment

Date: 24 April 2014

Topic 1: Motivation
Every time, everywhere, we have to take actions and make decisions. The decisions we made is based on our motivation. “Motivation” is derived from the Latin verb movere (to move). It is what makes us start, direct, maintain and stop our behaviours. Motivation is the needs, wants, interests, and desires that energise and direct behaviour.
There are two famous theories of motivation; drive (push) theory and incentive (pull) theory.
Drive theory was raised by Clark Hull. Drive theory is internal states that arise in response to disequilibrium; we seek homeostasis, tendency to maintain a constant, ideal internal state for survival, such as regulation of body temperature. According to drive theory, Physiological needs create aroused state of tension. Needs are resulted from a lack of something desirable or useful. People have both physiological and psychological needs. For example,
We need oxygen and food to survive, physiological needs, we may need self-esteem or social approval, psychological needs, we often learn the needs to survive. These are drives. A drive is an internal condition that can change over time and orients an individual toward a specific goal or goals. We have different drives with different goals. Drives are pushing us to take an action.
Incentives theory is different with drive theory. Drive theory is about the thing push people to act, but incentive theory is about the things pull people to act.
Incentive is the object we seek or the result we are trying to achieve th...

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...ization, can be satisfied. Social workers can try their best to help others. Helping others become their meaning of life. In this hierarchy, they will think that helping others is an important system of value and ethics which are more significant than esteem, love and belonging, safety and money etc. Therefore, there are lots of motivations to make us to become social workers.
In conclusion, motivations are important for us to take an action, to push us to start, direct, maintain and stop our behaviours. If we do not have any motivations, we will not do any things or do not willing to act.

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Weiten, W. (2013). Psychology: Themes and variations(9th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.

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