Need, intention, goal, energy, or force {motivation, behavior}| can cause behavior.
cause
Stimulus or perception arouses organism, and then aroused organism performs the behavior.
cause: intention
Behavior uses intentions and goals. Intention happens after deliberation and is desire or purpose to perform behavior [Järvilehto, 2000].
types
Motivations can be innate or acquired. Innate motivations include drives, such as hunger, thirst, and sexual desire. Acquired motivations include achievement, failure fear, power need, and affiliation need.
Motivations include self-preservation, fear of death, and finding meaning for life. Motivations include physical contact, genital stimulation, approval, praise, autonomy, domination, competency, skill, and learning.
People can like to receive assistance from others. People can need to reduce uncertainty and anxiety, by setting rules. Frustrations and threats can cause wishes for harm or actual harm to others. People conform to standards and do what other same-age-and-sex persons do. Telling the truth and being kind receive praise. Fine-arts students like self-discovery.
factors
Deprivation, stimulation, previous learning, and past successes and rewards increase motivated behavior.
satisfaction
People can satisfy needs directly, perform intermediate behaviors toward satisfying needs, substitute other behaviors to indirectly satisfy needs, or delay or stop satisfying needs.
comparison: beliefs
Beliefs are dispositions to act.
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