Motivation

Problem of motivation and motives of behavior in activity – one of the cores in psychology. Hardly there will be such area of psychology which wouldn't mention motivational process.

Now the motivation as the mental phenomenon is treated differently. In one case — as set of the factors supporting and directing, i.e. defining behavior, in other case — as set of motives, in the third — as the prompting causing activity of an organism and defining it направлен¬ность.