People's thinking and behavior are the result of the interaction between individuals and the environment. Social environment produces people's needs and demands, and motivation dominates people's behavior. Some behavior results can feedback, adjust demand, strengthen motivation and re-dominate people's behavior. This periodic movement embodies the interaction and mutual restriction of various ideological factors and forms the process of people's ideological activities. The study of ideological and political education can follow the law of the formation and development of people's thoughts and behaviors, start with people's actual performance, analyze the ideological motivation that dominates the action, and then analyze the objective external conditions that produce thoughts from the ideological motivation, and then create and change the external environment according to the requirements of ideological and political education, so as to make it have the external conditions that produce good ideological motivation, thus prompting people to form good ideological motivation and helping people adopt scientific methods to strive for the best possible action results.

In short, the study of ideological and political education can help us better analyze the objective external conditions that cause people's needs, grasp people's needs, thus changing people's behavioral motives and achieving the purpose of controlling people's behavior.