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Classification of Motives through their focus

1. Homeostasis This focused on the regulation of physiological bodyfunction: food, clothing, and shelter.

2. Self-esteem Its focus is on its mental function.3. Social Relation The focus of this group of human motives is on

interpersonal function.

Two Division of Motivation According to Marx

1. Biological Motives include hunger, thirst, air, fatigue, sex and othermiscellaneous body drives.

2. Psychological Motives are subdivided into:a. Personal or orgasmic motive includes curiosity competence and

achievement.b. Social interaction and social motives which are affiliation, power and

independence upon relationships of the organism w/ other people.

Classification of Motives According to Smith

1. Homeostatic needs to hunger and thirst.2. Sensory needs refer to the innate needs of activity.3. Social Motivation refers to the acquired or learned social goals.

Physiological Drives refers to the primary motives of which some physiologicalin origin.

Primary Motives

1. Hunger and Thirst2. Sex and maternal drive3. Curiosity and Sensory Stimulation4. Activity and Manipulation5. Competence Motive

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Social Motive is also another kind which involves other people in one way oranother.

Classifications

1. Affection and Affiliation2. Social Approval and Self-esteem3. Achievement4. Cognitive Dissonance

General Ways of Motivating People

1. Motivation by force2. Motivation by enticement3. Motivation by identification or Ego-Involvement

Motivational Model

Maslows Hierarchy of Needs

1. Basic Physiological Needs includes basic needs of people like food,shelter and clothing.

2. Safety and Security includes a feeling of being safe and secure.3. Love and Belongingness This is the time you want to look for you life

partner.4. Self-esteem the need to increase your self worth.5. Self-actualization needs this is the highest needs to find self-fulfillment

and realize ones potential.

The Filipino Hierarchy of Needs

1. Familism the need to belong

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Emotional Maturity implies the capacity to extend yourself into an ever-increasing range of expression without losing your balance.

Frustrations occur when progress toward a desired goal is blocked or delayed.

Conflict when two motives occur at the same time, the satisfaction tends to

frustrations of the other.

Stress is a situation that calls foe more than what is normal or usual for aperson.

Sources of Stress

1. Biological deprivation extreme hunger can cause deep physical andemotional disturbance.

2. Danger real or imagined usually produces stress.

3. Thrust to self-esteem this is often affected by age and personalityfactors.

4. Overload pressure or workload oftentimes produce stress.5. Crises and stresses that accompanying normal social and personal

development.

Defense Mechanism refers to a behavior that protects an individual from pain,shame or guilt.

Three Main Types of Defense Mechanism

1. Escape Reaction is characterized by withdrawal from frustrating oranxiety-producing situations. Different forms of this type:a. Repressionb. Fantasyc. Regressiond. Apathye. Reaction Formation

f. Denial

2. Compromise Reaction or Techniques and Substitute activitiesa. Rationalization

PredestinationExemption

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Doctrine

b. IdentificationIntrojectionProjection

c. Sublimationd. Compensation and Atonement

Two Forms of Aggression

Direct aggression

Displaced aggression

Importance of Attitude

1. Attitude determines ones behavior.2. Attitude influences our social perception and vice versa.3. Attitude predicts behavior.4. Attitudes can have a strong and lasting impact on individuals, group and

societies.5. Attitudes help us cope with the world around us.

Sources of Attitudes

1. Specific Experiences2. Communication with others3. Models4. Institutional Factors

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CHAPTER 7: VALUE SYSTEM

Self Image is a set of assumptions about who are we, about what we expect thefuture to bring, about, whether we are successes or failures, about how we are

not competent.

Values is closely related to the search for meaning in human life. It is related toreligion, morals and ethics, social and political sciences and other field.

Classification of Values

1. Useful or Utilitarian good when some other things are obtained from it.

2. Pleasurable or delectable good when it provides pleasure to thesubject.

3. Befitting or becoming good when it develops, completes or perfectsthe subject.

Modern Classification of Values

1. Intrinsic and Instrumental

Intrinsic value is referred to something good for his oneself.

Instrumental value is a value of good strive for cause of its worth to us and toothers.

2. Accidental and Natural Values

Accidental Value is that which befits a man with respect to the accident found inhim.

3. Primary and Secondary Values

Primary Values are values that are chosen, acted upon are necessary for thedevelopment of man.

Secondary Values are values that are consistently necessary for the well-beingof its members.

4. Moral or Ethnical Values

Moral Values refer to the qualities which lifts the level of personal value to adegree higher than economic, cultural and aesthetic values.

5. Religious Values

6. Cultural Values

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Cultural Value means progress, enrichment and completion of humanpersonality.

7. Social Values

Five Positive Values

1. Honesty2. Hard Work3. Thrift4. Delicadeza5. Word of Honor