Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each element as belonging to the drive-reduction sequence or NOT part of it.
Groups: Part of drive-reduction · Not part of drive-reduction
- Drive (aroused psychological state)
- Homeostasis restoration
- An external incentive with no underlying deficit
- Pure thrill-seeking for its own sake
- Physiological need
Hints
- Drive-reduction runs need to drive to homeostasis; anything with NO deficit is outside it.
- External pulls and thrill-seeking belong to incentive theory, not drive-reduction.
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Part of drive-reduction: Physiological need, Drive (aroused psychological state), Homeostasis restoration
Not part of drive-reduction: An external incentive with no underlying deficit, Pure thrill-seeking for its own sake
Why
Need, drive, and homeostasis restoration form the drive-reduction cycle; external incentives and thrill-seeking - which involve no deficit - fall outside it and motivate the incentive-theory alternative. The dividing line is whether a physiological deficit is being corrected.
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