Achievement needs, motivation theory

The Goal-Directed and the Behavioral Schools of study represent two of the most popular views of motivation. In the Goal-Directed School of Motivation, the inner drives of individuals are examined to explain why human behavior takes place. Examples of goal-directed theories include the Needs-Hierarchy Theory, the Need-Achievement Theory, and the Motivational Hygiene Theory. Examples of... 

Perhaps this is too easy. Perhaps the importance of the duty of universal applicability is as a motivation, rather than as an achievement attempts to unify disparate domains have motivated some of the most ambitious and successful episodes in the history of physics. Newtonian mechanics, we are often told, was the synthesis of terrestrial and astronomical physics. More poignantly for the present discussion, in the early 1920s—the last years of the old quantum theory—attempts to fit atomic models to spectroscopic data required a diverse battery of inexplicable and mutually incompatible quantum conditions. Pauli and Bom, among others, saw in this chaos the need for a radical departure. Hindsight tells us that it was quantum mechanics... 

Motivation, in the broadest sense, is self-motivation, complex, and either need- or value-driven. Someone once stated that he believed hope was the secret ingredient to a person being motivated (the hope to accomplish a goal, a dream, or attain a need) there is reason to support this theory. However, possibly a better definition is motivation presnmes valuing, and values are learned behaviors thus, motivation, at least in part, is learned and can be tanght (Frymier, 1985). This definition provides us with the encouragement we need to go forward and achieve motivation for onrselves and others. 

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