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All of a person's motives are forever on the increase from the moment they were last satisfied until they are satisfied again. But various degrees of satisfaction reduce motive intensities by corresponding amounts. The level of a person's motivational development may be inferred, in comparative terms, through the use of a quantitative formula. This formula translated into words is that the sum of intensity increments of motives that can be distinguished within a given person at a given time of development is equal to a constant. An assumption is