Drive: (1) In psychoanalysis, a basic compelling urge. (2) In psychology, classified as either innate (e.g., hunger) or learned (e.g., hoarding) and appetitive (e.g., hunger, thirst, sex) or aversive (e.g., fear, pain, grief).motive, motivation.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Drive: A state of internal activity of an organism that is a necessary condition before a given stimulus will elicit a class of responses; e.g., a certain level of hunger (drive) must be present before food will elicit an eating response.
Source: MeSH 2007
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Source: CRISP
The following list attempts to classify Drive into categories where each line is subset of the next.
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