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Assignment:
Please review response below, then respond to questions on bottom:
"Emotion does not influence motivation. Motivation is ultimately dependent on natural selection. This become evident when we examine the evolutionary theories. A lot of motives are biological and are a product of evolution, such as hunger, thirst, and sex. Even social motives such as achievement, affiliation, autonomy, order, and dominance are related to biological motives. For example, dominance is directly related to the biological motive of sex because because it is naturally going to affect an organisms reproduction rate. Some may also argue that hunger, which is a biological motive, is an external stimuli which associated with the incentive theory. These arguments claim that humans and other animals eat for the pleasure of food rather than compensating for energy deficits.
While these are valid arguments, I must refute them. It is true that humans become hungry based on factors such as stress, palatability, and variety, but that is because humans have adapted to earing food in this manner. Other animals such as a lion, for example, have to hunt in order to maintain their energy levels. A lion doesn't focus on factors such as palatability - a lion just wants to maintain energy levels in order to survive. Another misconception is that the motive of sex may be based on pleasure and emotion. However this can also be refuted by Robert Trivers' "Parental Investment Theory."
This theory examines what each sex has to invest when producing an offspring, such as time and energy, for example. According to this theory we can see that females are more conservative when choosing partners and this is because females want to seek a partner who has the greatest ability to care for their offspring. This shows that when it comes to reproduction, females are not emotionally motivated, but are instead motivated by biological factors such as natural selection, reproduction, and nurturing their offspring".
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