In their earlier attempts to explain motivation, psychologists were inclined to attributing it to ________.

A) emotions
B) incentives
C) learned responses
D) instincts

Learned Responses

Behaviors developed as a result of experience or practice, often through reinforcement or conditioning.

Instincts

Innate, typically fixed patterns of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli.

Emotions

Affective states that are experienced as a response to internal or external events and are associated with physiological, behavioral, and cognitive changes.