Motivational Concepts
by Kellie Koren
1. Self-transcendence Self-actualization Esteem Belonging and love Safety Physiological
2. People are motivated to behave in certain ways because they are evolutionary programmed to do so.
2.1. Birds fly south to avoid the cold weather. Animals are not told to do this, they are born with the idea to do so.
3. Maria is a happy, functioning, adult in today's society. She is satisfying her need to belong and be loved, by talking to her long time crush on the phone. But suddenly, Maria gets hungry! Because of her sudden need to satisfy physiological needs, she drops all the way down to the bottom of Maslow's Pyramid, and must start again from the bottom, after she has had a cheeseburger of course.
4. Maslow's Hierarchy
4.1. Prioritization of human needs
5. Instinct Theory
6. Drive Reduction Theory
6.1. When the original motivation is gone, it is replaced by the drive reduction theory, it is the idea that a psychological need replaces what you are doing with something simpler like eating or drinking.
6.1.1. Sarah is playing soccer and when half time comes around she all of a sudden realizes that she has not drank any water since the beginning of the game and her body needs water to remain in the homeostasis state, her thirst drives her to quench her thirst and her body is restored to its normal state.