{"id":67755,"date":"2025-11-12T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/drive-theory\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T00:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:00:29","slug":"drive-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/drive-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A psychological theory that attempts to analyze, classify, or define psychological drives. Drive is the primary urge coming from organic needs, which can influence the behavior of an individual; &#8220;an excitatory state caused by a violation of homeostasis&#8221;. The theory of drives is based on the principle that organisms are born with certain psychological needs, and when these needs are not satisfied, a state of tension arises, which is burdensome for the individual. When the need is satisfied, the body returns to a state of homeostasis and relaxation.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A psychological theory that attempts to analyze, classify, or define psychological drives. Drive is the primary urge coming from organic needs, which can influence the behavior of an individual; &#8220;an excitatory state caused by a violation of homeostasis&#8221;. The theory of drives is based on the principle that organisms are born with certain psychological needs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-individual-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}