Drive reduction theory is the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need. For example your need is food, the drive is hunger, and the drive reducing behavior would be eating.
Homeostasis is a tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state. When the state changes it makes your body react in a way to fix the change. Like when the temperature in your house rises and there is a temperature change it makes the air conditioning turn on.
Our needs are not the only thing that motivates us we are also pulled by incentives, both positive and negative.
When there is both a need and an incentive we are strongly driven. The food deprived person that smells baking bread feels a strong hunger drive. In the presences of that drive, the baking bread becomes a compelling incentive. For for each motive we can ask, “How is it pushed by our inborn physiological needs and pulled by incentives in the environmental?”
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