A research participant eats half a bowl of M&M candies, and then stops eating. How would a motivation researcher using drive reduction theory explain this participant’s behavior?
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The Yerkes-Dodson law explains that people will eat food when presented to them, but usually in moderate amounts in order to avoid being perceived as selfish.
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The primary drive of hunger motivated the person to eat, and then stop when she/he regained homeostasis.
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The research participant was satisfying the second step on the hierarchy of needs: Food needs.
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Each person uses incentives in order to determine what to be motivated to do. This person decided on a hunger incentive and ate half the candies.