This document discusses several types of motivation:
- Hunger motivation drives the feeling of hunger and is influenced by both biological and external factors.
- Thirst motivation monitors fluid levels in the body and triggers the drive to drink when levels drop.
- Sex motivation includes both biological and learned drives to engage in sexual activities.
- Maternal motivation refers to drives in animals and humans to care for offspring through behaviors like nesting and feeding.
- Aggression motivation aims to harm others and can stem from responses to pain, fear or goals like taking resources.
- Affiliation motivation involves the need to establish and maintain positive relationships with others.
- Achievement motivation is the impulse to master challenges at a high standard