Answer:
When he misses lunch, Augustus knows he is experiencing a state of deficiency. Pretty soon, he starts to feel hungry and he goes to a deli to eat. Augustus was motivated to eat because he experienced the psychological state called a(n) drive, which will reduce his state of deficiency.
Step-by-step explanation:
All behavior is motivated and its function is to satisfy bodily needs, the drive warns of the need to act and guarantees that the behavior (serving the needs) happens at the time and in the necessary way. In psychoanalysis, the drive is the deep psychic energy that directs action toward an objective, discharging itself when it is achieved, so that the need is satisfied. If the basic needs are not met, a lack occurs in the person, that is why they are called deficiency needs. When we are hungry (body deficiency) we feel motivated to eat in order to satisfy that need and in this way we reduce the deficiency state (or tension).