![]() ![]() Human needs arrange themselves in hierarchies of prepotency. Practically all organismic states are to be understood as motivated and as motivating. ![]() ![]() Typically an act has more than one motivation. Any motivated behavior, either preparatory or consummatory, must be understood to be a channel through which many basic needs may be simultaneously expressed or satisfied. Therefore conscious, specific, local-cultural desires are not as fundamental in motivation theory as the more basic, unconscious goals. There are usually available various cultural paths to the same goal. Such a stress would imply a more central place for unconscious than for conscious motivations. Such a theory should stress and center itself upon ultimate or basic goals rather than partial or superficial ones, upon ends rather than means to these ends. Any drive that is somatically based and localizable was shown to be atypical rather than typical in human motivation. The hunger drive (or any other physiological drive) was rejected as a centering point or model for a definitive theory of motivation. The integrated wholeness of the organism must be one of the foundation stones of motivation theory. ![]()
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