Motivation and Affectivity

Unlike animals that are being predominantly reactive acting instinctively, the man is a being par excellence active, intervening on the environment in which lives through the experience, capacity forecasting and planning, and especially under the impulse of its multiple needs continue amplification.
Human relationships with the environment, in the complex process of adaptation, are due to his cognitive abilities (perception, representation, thinking, memory, imagination), but also to his setting functions.
Between processes in an adjustment of human activity, will have a supreme position, but should not be minimized the importance of motivation and emotionality, the two basic components , fundamental for all human actions.
Motivation is defined as the phenomenon of mental set that consists of all domestic needs (arising as a result of energy imbalances) which supports and triggers human activity.
Affectivity is the set that reflects the relationships between subject and object in the form of subjective experience, that results from satisfying or unsatisfying a necessity.
So, if motivation can be considered the engine of our mental life, affectivity constitute its energetic support , an echo or resonance in a subject of acting stimuli from the outside or inside, depending on the individual's internal state at a time. Affectivity reflects the relationship between the subject and the object, which justifies why the same object causes different emotional experience.
As an entity in the same time biological, psychological and social man is normally characterized by a multitude of necessity, reasons, interests, beliefs, but that may not meet the full and immediate, which cause them a diversity of emotional experience simpler or more complex, positive or negative.
Motivation and emotionality, which have an inborn base , evolve from simple forms to more complex forms and vary under the influence of environmental conditions. To organic and biological needs, gradually add the security, affiliation, self accomplishment and esteem needs as the pyramid needs created by the American psychologist Abraham Maslow shows.
All these types of needs may signal at a time, a state of saturation or supra saturation, which causes different emotional experience: either dissatisfaction, inconvenience, or delight, pleasure.