CONATIVE PSYCHOLOGY
• Motives
• Drives
• Needs
• Desires
• Goal
• Purposes
CONATIVE PROCESSES
• Conation is a term that stems from the Latin Conatus,meaning any
natural tendency,impulse,striving or directed effort.
• Conative is one of three parts of mind along with the coginitive and
affective.
• The term behaviour includes all the motor,or conative activities like
walking,swimming,and dancing.
• Coginitive activities like thinking,reasoning,imagining.
• Affective activities like feeling happy,sad,angry.
THREE PARTS OF THE MIND
• Conation is the sum of one’s cognitive and affective tendencies.
• It is the ability that drives one to act when interacting with
knowledge, environment, and people.
• Affective+ Cognitive = Conative Skills
• In short, the cognitive part of the brain has to do with intelligence,
the affective deals with emotions and the conative drives how one
acts on those thoughts and feelings.
MOTIVATION
• A girl wants to be a doctor.
• Aman strives for political power.
• A person in great pain longs for relief.
• A boy is lonely and wishes for friend.
• A man has just commited murder,and the police says the motive was
revenge.
• A woman works hard at a job to achieve a felling of competence and
success.These are just few of the motives that play so large a part in
human behaviour.
MOTIVATION
• These examples shows us that behaviour is driven and pulled towards
goal.They also show us that such goal-seeking behaviour tends to persist.
• We need a term refer to the driving and pulling forces which results in
persistent behaviour directed towards particular goal.The term is
“Motivation”.
• The concept of motivation focuses on explaining what
“moves”behaviour.The term motivation is derived from the latin word
“movere”,referring to movement of activity.
• Most of our everyday explainations of behaviour is given in terms of
motives.
MOTIVATION
• Why did you come to school,or college?
• There may be any number of reasons for this behaviour,such as you
want to learn or you want to make friends.,you need a diploma or
degree to get a good job,you want to make your parents happy and so
on.
• Some combinations of these reasons and/otr others would explain
why you choose to go in for higher education.
• MOTIVES help us in making predictions about behaviour.A person
will work hard in school,in sports,in business,in music and in many
other situations,if she/has a very strong need for achievement.
MOTIVES
• Hence,motives are general states that enable us to make predictions
about behaviours in many different situations .
• Motive is an inner state that energizes,activates or moves and directs
channel’s behaviour towards goals.
• PRIMARY MOTIVE:Also called physiological,biological unlearned
motives.hunger,thirst,sex,sleep.
• SECONDARY MOTIVE:A motive must be learnt.
MOTIVATION definition
• Motivation is the process by which activities are started,directed and
continued so that physical or psychological needs or wants are met.
• The word itself comes from the latin word movere,which means “to
move”.
• Motivation is what “moves”people to do the things they do.
• For example,when a person is relaxing in front of the television and
begins to feel hungry,the physical need for food might cause the
person to get up,go into the kitchen and search for something to eat .
• The physical need of hunger caused the action(getting up),directed
it(going to the kitchen) and sustained the search (finding or preparing
something to eat).loneliness may lead to calling a friend or going to
place where there are people.The desire to go ahead in life motivates
many people to go to college.Just getting out of bed in the morning is
motivated by the need to keep a roof over one’s head and food on the
table by going to work.
• So, “MOTIVATION”----Internal processes that activates,guide and
maintain behaviour over time.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF MOTIVATION
• There are different types of motivation.Sometimes people are driven to do
something because of an external reward of some sort (or the avoidance of
an unpleasant consequence,as when someone goes to work at a job to
make money and avoid losing possessions such as home and car).
• In EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION,a person performs an action because it leads to
an outcome that is separate from the person.
• example would be giving child a money,for every A received on the report
card,offering a bonus to an employee for increased performance or tipping a
server in a restaurant for good service.
• The child,employee and server are motivated to work for the external or
extrinsic rewards.
INTRINSIC MOTIVATION
• Intrinsic motivation is a type of motivation in which a person performs an action
because the act itself is fun,rewarding,challenging or satisfying in some internal
manner.
• SO,MOTIVATION IS THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT KEEPS YOU ACHIEVE YOUR
GOAL.IT IS THE DRIVE THAT PUSHES YOU TO WORK HARD.IT IS THE ENERGY THAT
GIVES YOU THE THE STRENGTH TO GET UP AND KEEP GOING.
• Motivation is activated,directed towards some definite goal.
• It is a driving force that initiates and directs behaviour.
• It is the internal drive to accomplish some goal.
• It is a hypothetical internal process that provides the energy for behaviour and
directs it towards some specific goal.
MOTIVATION AS A PROCESS
• ENERGY-----------DIRECTION--------PERSISTENCE.
• It is a process by which person’s effort are enerzied, directed and
sustained towards obtaining the goal.
• --CONTROLLING
• MOTIVATION DIRECTING BEHAVIOUR
• MAINTAINING
MOTIVATION CYCLE
• 1)need---INTERNAL DRIVING
STATE.THIRST/UNCOMFORTABLE/HOMEOSTASIS
DISTURBED/MOTIVATED TO RESTORE THIS INTERNAL
STATE/ENERZIED TO REDUCE THIS NEED/SEARCH FOR
WATER/REDUCE NEED/HOMEOSTASIS.(DRIVE THEORY)
• 2)drive
• 3)goal directed behaviour
• 4)goal attainment
• 5)drive reduction
BASIC CONCEPTS
• 1)need---physiological or psychological deficiency.
• 2)drive----individual behave in certain manner.an aroused state of
psychological tension typically that arises from tension.A condition in
which organism becomes active.A DRIVE IS A STATE OF TENSIONOR
AROUSAL PRODUCEWD BY NEED.it energises random activity.when
one of the random activities leads to goal,it reduces the driv e and the
organism stops being active.the organism returns to balanced state.
• 3)GOAL—Achieves a particular goal.attracts individual by which need
is fulfilled and drive is reduced.
MASLOW NEED THEORY
• )HUMANS ARE NEVER SATISFIED
• 2)HIERARCHY OF NEED
3 MAJOR COMPONENTS OF
MOTIVATION
• 1)ACTIVATION: Involves the decision to initiate behaviour,that is
enrolling in Niharika’s maam coaching.
• 2)PERSISTENCE: It is the persistence effort,toward a goal,even though
obstacles may exist.example—taking more psychology courses in
order to earn a degree,although it requires a significant investment
of time,energy and source.
• 3)INTENSITY:can be seen as the concentration &Vigor that goes
pursuing a goal.one student might prepare study without effort while
another student will take regular classes,regularly participate in
discussions and take advantage of research oppourtinities as well.
BIOGENIC MOTIVES
• Also known as biological motives, these are used as the cause to
understand behaviour by earlier psychologists.
• When there is a departure from the balanced physiological state of
the body, known as homeostasis, it arouses various biological motives
to restore the balance.
• This balance is very important for life. There are many such motives.
Some of the basic biogenic motives will be discussed in this section,
like hunger, thirst and sex.
Psychogenic Motives
• Psychogenic motives are also called general motives.
• These motives do not arise either because of learning or homeostatic
imbalance. These are innate, tend to persist through out one’s life and
are often difficult to satisfy.
• These are motive to explore the environment, the motive to master
the challenges and deal with the difficulties by being competent, and
by self-actualization (by doing what one is capable of doing the best
of his or her ability).
SOCIOGENIC MOTIVE
• The sociogenic needs are more complex as they are extrinsic needs
that are learned in social groups, as peers, or family where one grows.
• These needs may vary from person to person, depending upon the
personality type.
• There are many kinds of social motives and it is very difficult to
suggest which is most important or which is least important. It is also
very difficult to measure social motives.
• Achievement motivation, a type of sociogenic motive, refers to the
need to achieve or accomplish on a task and surpass the other
people.
• Affiliation motivation implies the need to make friends and seek co-
operation with others.
• Aggression motive refers to the need to fight and take revenge, to
belittle or curse or ridicule the other. Nurturance motive is the need
to take care of others or to help others when they are in a problem or
sick.
• Dominance motives are displayed when a person tries to control or
influence the other person, to become a leader. The power motive is
the need to gain power or do things that make a person feel powerful
and strong.
