Motivation: In psychology, the aggregate of all the individual motives, needs, and drives operative in a person at any given moment that influence the will and cause a given behavior. [ML. motivus, moving]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Motivation: mental process which causes organisms to seek a goal or satisfy a need; e.g., hunger, thirst, sex drive, etc.
Source: CRISP
Motivation: 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.
Source: MeSH 2007
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