Connect Access Card for Essentials of Understanding Psychology
Connect Access Card for Essentials of Understanding Psychology
12th Edition
ISBN: 9781259737282
Author: Robert S Feldman Dean College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 24, Problem 1E
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Introduction: Psychology is the branch of science that incorporates the behavior, thought, emotion, personality, and motivation. Behavior is the capacity of an animal to learn through experience.

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Answer to Problem 1E

Correct answer: Motives are forces that guide a person’s behavior in a certain direction.

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The ultimate force that makes a person to take action or to initiate a behavior is referred as motivation. It is derived from the word “motives” meaning a “moving cause”. Motivation is a person’s direction towards behavior or a set of forces that acts behind the motives.

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