Drive Reduction Theory Is No Longer as Popular as It

question 44

Multiple Choice

Drive reduction theory is no longer as popular as it was in early conceptions of motivation. Which one of the following research findings contributed to the demise of drive reduction theory?

• A) Although drive reduction theory explains virtually all of rat behavior, it explains very little of human behavior.
• B) For some organisms, drive is a physiological impossibility.
• C) For human beings, so many drives exist simultaneously that it's impossible to completely satisfy them all.
• D) Organisms sometimes behave in ways that increase rather than reduce drive.

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