PSY 320
Motivation Concepts Table and Analysis
Motivation Concepts Table
Theory Name | Major Theorist(s) | Time Period Created | Key Theory Concepts | Will: | Descartes | 1637 | Will motivates all actions.Will is an initiated and directed action. | | Ruckmick | 1963 | Striving to create impulses to act.The ability to resist self-denial or temptation. | | Rand | 1964 | Helps to decide whether or not to act. | Instinct | Darwin | 1859-1872 | A behavior is unlearned, automated and mechanistic. Biological urges impulses and appetites. | Freud’s Drive Theory | Freud | 1915 | All behavior is motivated to serve the fulfillment of need. | Hull’s Drive Theory | Hull | 1943 and 1952 | Drive is a physiological basis and bodily need is the ultimate basis of motivation. Drive can be predicted before it occurs. | Decline of Drive Theory | Sheffield & Roby | 1950 | Learning can occur when there is no equivalent experience of drive decline. | | Harlow | 1953 | Learning occurs when there is a drive reductions and well as an increase in drive. | | Klien | 1954 | Motivation can result from something other than bodily disturbances. | | Bolles | 1972 | A decrease in drive is not necessary for learning to occur. | Theory Name | Major Theorist(s) | Time Period Created | Key Theory Concepts | Post-Drive Theory Years | Bolles | 1975 | Had the dominant perspective on motivation. | | Berlyne | 1967 | Optimal level of arousal | | Hebb | 1955 | | | Olds | 1969 | Pleasure centers in the brain | | Miller | 1948 | Approach and avoidance conflicts, conditioned motives | | Murray | 1938 | Universal Needs | | Rogers | 1959 | Self-actualization | Dynamics of ActionAchievement motivation Theory | Atkinson | 1964 | Some of the mini-theories that works to understand or investigate one area, such as motivational phenomenon, particular circumstance, groups of people and theoretical question. |