Motivations are feelings or ideas that cause us to act toward a goal. There are four basic theories of motivation: instinct (evolutionary) theory, drive-reduction theory, arousal theory, and incentive theory.
Instinct theory refers to Darwin's influence that our genes incline us to act in ways that increases our change of survival. In other words, we behave a certain way because of our genetic composition. For example, whenever I'm in the car with my mom and she's makes turn quickly before a car passes by; I try to protect myself by raising my hands over my face. Even though my hands over…
