Question: Whenever John goes a few hours without smoking a cigarette, he gets nervous and irritable. John's desire to smoke illustrates what theory of motivation?
A: Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
B: Cognitive dissonance
C: ethological consistency
D: drive reduction.
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The correct answer is D - drive reduction
Hull's drive reduction theory says that we are motivated to maintain homeostasis. The tissue deprivation (lack of nicotine in John's case) leads to a drive to maintain the homeostasis (nicotine levels in the blood) which motivates the desire to get nicotine into the system to prevent nicotine withdrawal symptoms. There is no better nicotine delivery system than a burning burning tobacco which is directly inhaled into the lungs and then assimilated into the blood stream. Of course, nicotine patches, gum, lozenges, inhalers do the same thing but less efficiently. As we all know the carcinogens in the tobacco will kill a person.
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