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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by respect. Something

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no one riding a Segway has ever been familiar with.. All right how would a drive [people riding a segway down a walkway]

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theorists explain that Janine wants to be respected by her peers right here are the

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possible answers, we're thinking about a drive theorist, a drive theorist

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could've had 10 jokes about golf there, but we didn't. Okay first let's take a look at drive

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theory drive; theory states that the body generates a feeling of need or drive for

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food sleep water sex and other biological factors and no the need to [drive theory examples of biological factors]

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get a pony does not count as a biological factor so you can drop the act all [girl walks with her pony]

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right would it be A all people have an instinct for respect and acceptance well

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respect and acceptance aren't primary biological urges rather they fall more [two dogs in the park]

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into the category of tangibles that don't directly affect biological needs.

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This doesn't fit with drive theory so we can cross off A and we can also cross off

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D here because as we said the desire for respect isn't a primary biological need

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all right well how about B respect is high on the hierarchy of needs and leads

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to self-actualization this may be true but again it doesn't involve biological [girl sat on her bed with a pizza and a laptop]

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urges self-actualization comes from a number of other factors built off of

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these biological needs a drive theorist wouldn't use this argument to describe [golfer driving the ball down the course]

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Janine's need for respect so we can get rid of B. Alright could it be C the

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body craves an optimal amount of excitement and peer respect leads to

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this well while it's true that some people do seem to crave a certain amount [baby wearing sunglasses wheels across a play area]

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of excitement in their lives, excitement isn't a primary biological need so it

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doesn't fit into the drive theory we cross off C from our list then we're

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left with E the drive theory focuses on the body's primary and secondary needs

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and doesn't fully explain the need for self respect there's a reason none of [Woman appears on stage in front of a red curtain]

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the other answers have really made sense thus far like we said earlier the self

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respect thing isn't a biological need it's an intangible so drive theory isn't [self respect separated from biological needs]

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very useful for explaining it. A more useful theory would be incentive theory

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which better explains the motivation to attain intangibles so the correct answer [money, gummybears and a trophy appear]

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is E, alright so what have we learned drive theory only goes so far in explaining

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motivation for things that aren't biological necessities

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food, water.. oreo's, yeah you know the basics [hand picks up an oreo]

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