7. Motivation (KEY INFO)

Question 1

_____, a classic researcher in the field, argued that personality psychology is essentially about motivation.

Answer 1

Allport

Question 2

Baumeister and Vohs (2007) defined motivation as…

Answer 2

any sort of general drive or inclination to do something

Question 3

Contemporary approaches to human motivation tend to focus on … and these have been described as…

Answer 3

the basic components of the processes

bottom-up

Question 4

Another feature of contemporary approaches to human motivation is that they do not focus on…

Answer 4

listing taxonomies of different motives

Question 5

______ conceptualised human motives as needs

Answer 5

Maslow

Question 6

Maslow’s hierarchy has _____ the number of needs but this does not include…

Answer 6

increased

affective

Question 7

Control theory uses a _______ ________ to conceptualise human motivation

Answer 7

cybernetic metaphor

Question 8

Although control theory has been criticised it cannot be accused of using a top-down approach because…

Answer 8

it does consider motivation as a bottom-up process