The results also show they obtained gratifications from actively retrieving knowledge from a self-made system; however, due to the workers' biased perceptions toward that system, knowledge retrieval from a self-made system did not induce higher work efficiency.
The kleptomaniac usually has the economic means to purchase what he steals and obtains gratification from the theft itself rather than from its object.
The personality trait of extraversion is concerned with the tendency of being concerned with or obtaining gratification from the external environment.
I found Almond's chapter on "Vampyric Motherhood" particularly lucid: stage mothers derive self worth from each child's accomplishments and "feed from the child to obtain gratifications," while other mothers "co-opt the child's autonomy" by forcing food "into the child — food in the form of ideas, behaviors, allegiances, and beliefs".
Immediate gratification (D) - How does a person obtain satisfaction from the very act of voting, regardless of the outcome?
Although id impulses are constantly directed toward obtaining immediate gratification of one's major instinctual drives (sex, affection, aggression, self-preservation), the ego functions to set limits on this process.
If a pedophile is driven to sexual encounter, the encounter frequently stops short of intercourse, with the pedophile obtaining sexual gratification through fondling the child and sometimes through genital display alone.
The government has previously explained the need for the new law in a supplementary memo: "The offence can only be committed by an adult who, for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, communicates with a child under 16 where the communication is either itself sexual or is one which is intended to encourage the child to make a communication which is sexual.
Although less obvious in sexual crimes, it can be argued that offenders will target victims who will allow them to obtain sexual gratification.
She should be discouraged from obtaining sexual gratification by being denied easy and affordable access to contraception.
