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- Drive-reduction approaches suggest that a lack of some basic biological requirement such as water produces a drive to obtain that requirement.
- A drive is motivational tension, or arousal, that energizes behavior to fulfill some need.
- Primary drives include hunger, thirst, sleep, and sex, and are related to biological needs of the body or of the species.
- Secondary drives are drives that have no obvious biological basis.
Secondary drives may include a strong need to achieve academically and professionally.
- We try to satisfy a primary drive by reducing the need underlying it. If we are hungry, we eat.
- Homeostasis is the body's tendency to maintain a steady internal state.
- Drive-reduction theories do not fully explain a behavior in which the goal is to increase the level of excitement or arousal.
- Some behaviors seem to be motivated by nothing more than curiosity.
- Many people pursue thrilling activities such as riding a roller coaster or steering a raft down the rapids of a river.
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