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Emotions can be considered as motives because

  • A.they are universal and presumably innate.
  • B.they initiate and direct behaviour towards the attainment of certain goals.
  • C.they are governed by consciously recognized stimulus and goal objects.
  • D.they are integral parts of the process of adjustment.

Answer: B

Emotions can be considered motives because they initiate and direct behaviour towards the attainment of certain goals.

A motive is anything that starts and steers behaviour towards a goal. Emotions such as fear and anger do just that: fear leads us away from danger, and anger drives us to remove the obstacle.

Being universal and innate, governed by recognised stimuli or part of adjustment are features some emotions have, but they do not by themselves make something a motive.

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