Loose Leaf For Essentials Of Understanding Psychol Format: Loose-leaf
Loose Leaf For Essentials Of Understanding Psychol Format: Loose-leaf
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Chapter 24, Problem 1E
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Introduction: Psychology is the branch of science that incorporates the behavior, thought, emotion, personality, and motivation. Behavior is the capacity of an animal to learn through experience.

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Correct answer: Motives are forces that guide a person’s behavior in a certain direction.

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The ultimate force that makes a person to take action or to initiate a behavior is referred as motivation. It is derived from the word “motives” meaning a “moving cause”. Motivation is a person’s direction towards behavior or a set of forces that acts behind the motives.

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