Good afternoon, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again. Our next episode of Psychology Unplugged. Thank you to all of our listeners, all of your feedback. It's a joy every week doing this program on Sundays. I try to get back to as many people as possible. I've enjoyed all the conversations and texts and emails back and forth. If I haven't gotten back to you,

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I'm doing the reels, which are they give you one minute,

and I know something will pop in my head.

As you guys know, I do this program very organically,

and same with the Instagram account. So thank you for the likes and comments, and I'm going to try and get

Julie on there once. I started having to do it a little bit, do some reels, but it's, it,

I do the podcast, I get a lot more time. So, so you know one minute is really not a lot of time

to explain things so it's just i think a way just to kind of put out different content and provide

education and um you know uh today is uh september 11th uh the united states um all of our listeners

uh in the united kingdom and their territories we extend our condolences to the loss of the Queen,

all the families and victims that were associated with 9-11, we also send out our prayers and condolences as well.

So, as you know, drives Julie crazy because I got the eye roll earlier that I'd never

come up with the topic. So I know she's going to jump on, because there's some things that she's

been following that have really been kind of cool and really important axioms and different ways of conceptualizing things. So I'm going to talk today kind of about

drive theory, perception, perspective. So drive theory was developed by Hall and Spence. And drive is something that is really an internal desire, an internal mechanism to get an organism back to homeostasis.

And they did the work with rats in the maze and depriving them of food.

But the whole principle of drive is, you know, what drives us and what motivates us?

There's external factors and there's, I think, internal factors.

So an external factor may be, we're driven to obtain a certain degree,

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