biological drive
Hardwired bodily impulse
A biological drive is an innate urge arising from physiological needs—hunger, thirst, sex, sleep.
These drives push organisms toward behaviors that satisfy bodily requirements or ensure survival and reproduction.
Psychology distinguishes biological drives from learned motivations: Hunger is a biological drive; the craving for pizza specifically is not.
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- animal instinctInnate behavioral drive
- urgeStrong inner drive
- primal urgeFundamental instinctual drive
- hungerNeed for nourishment
hunger pangs · thirst · lust · survival · survival mode · fight or flight · primal · appetite · craving · libido · desire · mating · mating call · arousal · impulse · need · reproduction · sleep
biological drivelearned behavior
Action acquired through experience
conditioned response · cultural conditioning · learned response · socialization · nurture
biological driverational choice
Logically optimal decision
conscious decision · conscious choice · voluntary action · free will · self-control
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