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(1) Try applying the drive-reduction theory of motivation toyour experience of having the munchies in the middle of the night.Be sure to include need, drive, behavior and homeostasis. Usingthis example, comment on why the concept of \"drive\" is critical.Why not just assume we go directly from need to behavior? Can yougive an example?
(2) In the 50's Clark Hull developed a remarkable variant of thedrive-reduction theory that included incentive as well. He saidthat we can determine the likelihood of a particular behavior of aperson (such as eating a hot dog or going to meet a friend) if weknow the strength of the drive, the strength of the incentive, andhow realistic the goal is. All three are expressed as percentages.You just multiply them together and you get the likelihood of thebehavior. For example, say your hunger is 80%, the incentive of ahot dog is 50% and an estimate of how realistic it is for you tofind a hot dog to eat is 90%. The likelihood of eating a hot dogthen is 80% x 50% x 90% = 36%, therefore you have a 36% chance ofgoing to eating a hot dog. So, given perfect knowledge about thethree factors for all possible behaviors, we could perfectlypredict what someone will do. Thoughts? Examples?
