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Motives ANS✔✔ internal states that arouse and direct behaviour towards specific
goals - often caused by a deficit, or a lack of something
Alpha press vs Beta press ANS✔✔ Alpha: objective reality, Beta: subjective,
someone's perceived reality
Need for achievement ANS✔✔ Desire to do better, to be successful, and to feel
competent
Prefer moderate levels of challenge, not too high or too low
More likely to get good grades, be self-employed, and have business occupations
Need for power ANS✔✔ Desire to have an impact on (and sometimes control) other
people
Need to impress, influence, or control other people - and to be recognized by others
for their power-oriented actions
More likely to abuse/assault their partners, do risky gambling, higher divorce rate
Need for Intimacy ANS✔✔ The unconscious desire for warm and fulfilling
relationships with others, the need for human connection
, People high found to 1) spend more time during the day thinking about
relationships, 2) report more pleasant emotions when around others, and 3) smile,
laugh, and make more eye contact
The Humanistic Approach to Motivation ANS✔✔ Emphasizes the role of choice in
life, and taking responsibility for creating a meaningful and satisfying life
- emphasis on human need for growth
- most specific distinction: this approach views motivation to be based on a need to
GROW, not from a deficit of something (ie., like in Freud's theory)
Henry Murray's Theory of Needs ANS✔✔ Primary needs: water, food, sex
Secondary (psychogenic) needs:
Materialistic needs (ie., acquisition, to gain possessions, to work for money or goods
Ambition needs (ie., achievement, to accomplish difficult tasks, to overcome
obstacles)
Social Affection needs (ie., nurturance, to take care of others in need, to help,
console, protect, and support others)
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) ANS✔✔ A test containing a set of ambiguous
black and white photos, person is asked to make up a story about what is
happening in the image.
The psychologist then codes the stories for various types of imagery associated with
particular motives.
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