What does «causación o motivación (psicología)» mean in Spanish?
- In psychology, set of factors that determine a particular type of behavior. This, especially if it is disturbing or unreasonable, is generally attributed to psychic causes. People try to find psychological causes for the most diverse behavioral phenomena: child delinquency, reading difficulties, divorce, children's aversion to washing. In this sense, we start from the principle that everything that happens has a cause. Psychologists have explored many impulses and motives that are supposed to determine behavior. For Sigmund Freud, all behavior obeys conscious and unconscious motivations. His theory addresses a dynamic explanation of motivation. Even irrational thoughts and dreams are considered psychologically determined and motivation, which is conceived as an explanation leading to a deeper understanding of behavior or emotions, answers the question "Why?".