What is Motivation-Factors of Motive

What is Cognitive Psychology?

According to APA, Cognitive psychology is the “Study of higher mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving and thinking”.                                             

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What is Motivation?

The word Motivation comes from “Mover” the Latin word meaning to move. Motivation is defined as the driving force. Motivation means a need or desire that energizes and directs the behaviour toward a goal. Motivation is a general term for the process of starting, directing and maintaining physical and psychological activity. Motivation is a broad concept that collects all the internal mechanism involved in performance for one activity on other, Vigour on responses.

Factors or aspects of Motives

1) Need: Physiological deficiency in organism’s body is called need. Need creates tension and imbalance in body.

2) Drive is motivation for action. Drive is activated and aroused organism takes action to restore the balance.

3) Incentives: An external Stimulus anticipated as reward, which directs and energizes behaviour.

4) Effect: Incentives causes the satisfaction. This satisfaction may be physical as well as Psychological. If organism needs are fulfilled it goes in state of homeostatic. In case of negative effect stress or irritability occurs that indicates motive is still unsatisfied. So organism restarts all the processes.