Training Motivation

Released on = January 17, 2006, 10:23 pm

Press Release Author = Training Motivation

Industry = Education

Press Release Summary = At the next level are motivations that have an obvious
biological basis but are not required for the immediate survival of the organism.
These include the powerful motivations for sex, parenting and aggression: again, the
physiological bases of these are similar in humans and other animals, but the social
complexities are greater in humans (or perhaps we just understand them better in our
own species).

Press Release Body = The easiest kinds of motivation to analyse, at least
superficially, are those based upon obvious physiological needs. These include
hunger, thirst, and escape from pain. The analysis of the processes underlying such
motivations can make use of research on animals, in ethology, comparative
psychology, and physiological psychology, and the hormonal and brain processes
involved in them seem to have much in common at least across all mammals and
probably across all vertebrates.

However, in humans, even these basic fundamental motivations are modified and
mediated through social and cultural influences of various kinds: for example no
analysis of hunger in humans could ignore the issues of eating disorders such as
anorexia nervosa and obesity, for which the parallels in other animals are unclear.
Even in animals, it is clear that the earlier homeostatic \"depletion-repletion\"
models of such motivations are no longer adequate, since many animals feed on a
precautionary rather than a reactive basis, most obviously when preparing for
hibernation.

At the next level are motivations that have an obvious biological basis but are not
required for the immediate survival of the organism. These include the powerful
motivations for sex, parenting and aggression: again, the physiological bases of
these are similar in humans and other animals, but the social complexities are
greater in humans (or perhaps we just understand them better in our own species).

In these areas insights from behavioral ecology and sociobiology have offered new
analyses of both animal and human behaviour in the last decades of the twentieth
century, though the extension of sociobiological analyses to humans remains highly
controversial. Perhaps similar, but perhaps at a rather different level, is the
motivation for new stimulation - variously called exploration, curiosity, or
arousal-seeking.

A crucial issue in the analysis of such motivations is whether they have a
homeostatic component, so that they build up over time if not discharged; this idea
was a key component of early twentieth century analyses of sex and aggression by,
for example, Freud and Konrad Lorenz, and is a feature of much popular psychology of
motivation. The biological analyses of recent decades, however, imply that such
motivations are situational, arising when they are (or seem to be) needed to ensure
an animal\'s fitness, and subsiding without consequences when the occasion for them
pases.

The most obvious form of motivation is coercion, where the avoidance of pain or
other negative consequences has an immediate effect. When such coercion is
permanent, it is considered slavery. While coercion is considered morally
reprehensible in many philosophies, it is widely practiced on prisoners or in the
form of conscription. Critics of modern capitalism charge that without social safety
networks, wage slavery is inevitable. Successful coercion sometimes can take
priority over other types of motivation.

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