Medical College of Wisconsin
CTSICores SearchResearch InformaticsREDCap

Mesh term Motivation

Browse to parent terms:
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Emotional Intelligence

Description

Those factors which cause an organism to behave or act in either a goal-seeking or satisfying manner. They may be influenced by physiological drives or by external stimuli.


Browse to child terms:
Achievement
Aspirations (Psychology)
Conflict (Psychology)
Drive
Exploratory Behavior
Food Deprivation
Goals
Handling (Psychology)
Instinct
Intention
Power (Psychology)
Water Deprivation


Search for this term in our Faculty Database



View this term at the NCBI website