ABSTRACT
The drive has certain advantages over the word instinct as a convenient verbal short cut for classifying the impulsions to activity. The so-called “unlearned” drives which have been listed by various writers include items as air-getting, temperature regulation, hunger, thirst, sexual responsiveness, “eliminative tensions,” “tissue injury.” “Drive” is but a convenient term to describe a certain early temporal phase of the adjustive activity going on in the organism between a state of disequilibrium and one of balance. In some drive-to-goal relations there is essentially an effort to continue to secure more and more of the satisfying stimulus until release of the disturbing tension is attained, that is, until satiation or consummatory response is reached. The chapter deals with a discussion of feelings and emotions; learning and the related factors of interaction. Emotion may be considered as the sum total of experiences during any period of stirred-up bodily changes induced by “startle,” “upset,” and the like.
