Motivation toward goals that are consistent with an established proprium and that are uniquely one’s own.
seek to maintain tension and disequilibrium.
Propriate Strivings
Adult behavior is both reactive and proactive, and an adequate theory of motivation must be able to explain both.
Term for those theories that view people as being motivated by tension reduction and by the desire to return to a state of equilibrium.
homeostatic
Reactive
An adequate theory of personality, Allport contended, must allow for proactive behavior
Allport argued for a psychology that, on one hand, studies behavioral patterns and general laws (the subject matter of traditional psychology) and, on the other, growth and individuality.
