Our Needs, Our Wants, Our Desires - What Drives Us, Our Understanding And Our Awareness
Motives: a need or drive that is stimulated and seeks to be satisfied, to take action. Need: becomes a motive when they are stimulated or aroused. Motives have two categories: Biogenic Needs. The needs for food and physical comfort and arises our physiological states. Psychogenic Needs. The need for appreciation and self-esteem, and arises out of psychological states. Maslow’s Theory of Motivation: Your needs are as follows: Physiological - Need for food, drink, clothing. Safety and Security - Need for protection and order. Belongingness and Love - Need for affection and acceptance. Esteem - Need for self respect, prestige and status. Self-actualization - Need for self-fulfillment. Perception: The uses of the five senses, and how we interpret the stimuli. Personality and Psychoanalytic Theory: Freud believed the mind and personality consisted of three parts: The ID, where basic, sometimes inappropriate, drive exists (the part of us always seeking pleasure). The SUPER...