Which concept is defined as a generalized state of readiness to act arising from deprivation or negative stimuli?

Which concept is defined as a generalized state of readiness to act arising from deprivation or negative stimuli?

• A. External Cues for Hunger
• B. Experience Seeking
• C. Cognitive Label/Appraisal
• D. Drive

Answer: (D)

Drive is the internal motivational state that rises when a need is unmet, creating a generalized readiness to act to reduce that deprivation. It’s an aroused condition that pushes you to seek out and engage in behaviors aimed at restoring balance. For example, when you’re hungry, a hunger drive energizes you to search for and eat food; the drive itself is the internal push, not just the moment you see or smell food. External Cues for Hunger refer to environmental signals that can trigger eating, but they are outside factors and not the internal arousal itself. Experience seeking is about a personality tendency to pursue novel experiences, not about a deprivation-based urge to act. Cognitive label or appraisal is about how you interpret and evaluate events or emotions, rather than the general readiness to act to satisfy a need.

Drive is the internal motivational state that rises when a need is unmet, creating a generalized readiness to act to reduce that deprivation. It’s an aroused condition that pushes you to seek out and engage in behaviors aimed at restoring balance. For example, when you’re hungry, a hunger drive energizes you to search for and eat food; the drive itself is the internal push, not just the moment you see or smell food.

External Cues for Hunger refer to environmental signals that can trigger eating, but they are outside factors and not the internal arousal itself. Experience seeking is about a personality tendency to pursue novel experiences, not about a deprivation-based urge to act. Cognitive label or appraisal is about how you interpret and evaluate events or emotions, rather than the general readiness to act to satisfy a need.