Human Motivation

By Bernard Weiner

Book Overview

Weiner introduces -- and offers his own motivation for producing - - this most impressive work with the following:

There are two distinct approaches to the study of motivation. One stratagem is a product of academic, experimental procedures, while the second is an outgrowth of clinical, non-experimental methods. Each of the approaches has unique advantages and disadvantages. But all investigators in this field are guided by a single basic question, namely, "Why do organisms think and behave as they do?"

To help answer that basic question, Human Motivation presents an entire range of motivation studies -- from psychoanalytic, social learning and humanistic theory; to social facilitation, arousal, emotions, personal responsibility, and the irrationality of attributions; through chapterand verse of Hullian and Lewinian theory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138002437
• ISBN13: 9781138002432
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.6"