What is the motivational tension, or arousal, that energizes behavior to fulfill a need called?

A drive is motivational tension, or arousal, that energizes behavior to fulfill a need. Many basic drives, such as hunger, thirst, sleep, and sex, are related to biological needs of the body or of the species as a whole. These are called primary drives. Primary drives contrast with secondary drives, in which behavior fulfills no obvious biological need. In secondary drives, prior experience and learning bring about needs. For instance, some people have strong needs to achieve academically and professionally. We can say that their achievement need is reflected in a secondary drive that motivates their behavior.

Drive is a general term for a strong urge in an animal or human, including those urges that are sometimes referred to as instinctive.

Webster Dictionary Meaning

- The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.
- A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
- Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.
- A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

- Driven.

- To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.
- To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.
- To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door.
- To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at.
- To distrain for rent.

- To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.
- To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door.
- To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like.
- To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- To pass away; -- said of time.

arousal approaches to motivation	The belief that we try to maintain a certain level of stimulation and activity, increasing or reducing them as necessary (Module 24)
cognitive approaches of motivation	The theory suggesting that motivation is a product of people's thoughts and expectations —their cognitions (Module 24)
arousal approaches to motivation	The belief that we try to maintain a certain level of stimulation and activity, increasing or reducing them as necessary (Module 24)
drive	Motivational tension, or arousal, that energizes behavior in order to fulfill some need (Module 24)
drive-reduction approaches to motivation	A theory suggesting that when people lack some basic biological requirement such as water, a drive to obtain that requirement (in this case, the thirst drive) is produced (Module 24)
homeostasis	The body's tendency to maintain a steady internal state (Module 24)
incentive approaches to motivation	The theory suggesting that motivation stems from the desire to obtain valued external goals, or incentives (Module 24)
instincts	Inborn patterns of behavior that are biologically determined rather than learned (Module 24)
motivation	The factors that direct and energize the behavior of humans and other organisms (Module 24)
self-actualization	A state of self- fulfillment in which people realize their highest potential in their own unique way (Module 24)
androgen	Male sex hormones secreted by the testes (Module 25)
anorexia nervosa	A severe eating disorder in which people may refuse to eat, while denying that their behavior and appearance—which can become skeletonlike—are unusual (Module 25)
bisexuals	Persons who are sexually attracted to people of the same and the opposite sex (Module 25)
bulimia	A disorder in which a person binges on incredibly large quantities of food (Module 25)
double standard	The view that premarital sex is permissible for males but not for females (Module 25)
estrogens	Class of female sex hormones (Module 25)
extramarital sex	Sexual activity between a married person and someone who is not his or her spouse (Module 25)
heterosexuality	Sexual attraction and behavior directed to the opposite sex (Module 25)
homosexuals	Persons who are sexually attracted to members of their own sex (Module 25)
masturbation	Sexual self-stimulation (Module 25)
metabolism	The rate at which food is converted to energy and expended by the body (Module 25)
need for achievement	A stable, learned characteristic in which satisfaction is obtained by striving for and attaining a level of excellence (Module 25)
need for affiliation	An interest in establishing and maintaining relationships with other people (Module 25)
need for power	A tendency to seek impact, control, or influence over others, andto be seen as a powerful individual (Module 25)
obesity	The state of being more than 20percent above the average weight for a person of a given height (Module 25)
ovulation	The point at which an egg is released from the ovaries (Module 25)
progesterone	Female sex hormone (Module 25)
weight set point	The particular level of weight that the body strives to maintain (Module 25)
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion	The belief that both physiological and emotional arousal are produced simultaneously by the same nerve stimulus (Module 26)
emotions	Feelings that generally have both physiological and cognitive elements and that influence behavior (Module 26)
James-Lange theory of emotion	The belief that emotional experience is a reaction to bodily events occurring as a result of an external situation (“I feel sad because I am crying”) (Module 26)
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion	The belief that emotions are determined jointly by a nonspecific kind of physiological arousal and its interpretation, based on environmental cues (Module 26)

What is motivational tension or arousal that energizes behavior to fulfill a need?

What is the main principle of arousal approaches to motivation?

What refers to the factors that direct and energize the behavior of humans?

Which of the following approaches to motivation suggests that motivation is a product of people's thoughts expectations and goals?