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• MOTIVE (from Lat. movere, to move)

MOTIVE (from See also:

• LAT

Lat. movere, to move)  , in See also:

• PSYCHOLOGY
• PSYCHOLOGY (>Guxrl, the mind or soul, and X yos, theory)

psychology, a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• TERM

term signifying any See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element of consciousness which prompts an See also:

• AGENT (from Lat. agere, to act)

agent to a decision . The older psychology usually regarded motives as strictly analogous to See also:

• MECHANICAL

mechanical forces exerting pressure or tension, and explained human See also:

• ACTION

action as necessarily determined by the resultant of various, possibly conflicting, motives . Contemporary psychological See also:

• RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research tends to show with increasing clearness that we must recognize a See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of decision in the self, and that the See also:

• ANALOGY (Gr. avaXo-yLa, proportion)

analogy of mechanical forces is inadequate to explain the facts . On this view motives will be regarded as solicitations to See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act in a certain direction, while the self decides by throwing its volitional See also:

• WEIGHT

weight on the See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of the See also:

• MOTIVE (from Lat. movere, to move)

motive which it regards as preferable . The solicitations may come from the most diverse See also:

• SOURCES

sources: they may be See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere desires to avoid some See also:

• PAIN (from Lat. poena, Gr. robin, penalty, that which must be paid: O. Fr. peine)
• PAIN, BARRY (1867– )

pain or to gratify some appetite; or they may be of higher origin, such as the motive of patriotism, or the See also:

• DESIRE

desire to advance knowledge . Purposes or ends are often termed motives . " Conflict of motives " means sometimes a conflict of purposes, when the agent has adopted two different lines of action and has difficulty in combining them; or it may mean a conflict of solicitations . It is better to See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call purposes or ends by those names when they, have been definitely adopted by the agent: while they are still under deliberation the term " motive " may be used .