Chapter Five Flashcards
Diagnosticity
A tasks provides information about something
Apperception
Projecting a motive into an ambiguous external stimulus via imagery
Implicit motive
A motives assessed indirectly bc it is not accessible to consciousness
Incentive
An action can satisfy a particular need for a person
Inhibited power motivation
Condition of having more need for power that for affiliation but restraining it’s use
Motive
Cognitive affective cluster organized around readiness for a particular kind of experience
Motive disposition
Dispositional tendency toward a high or low level of some motive
Need
An unsatisfactory internal condition that motivates behaviour
Need for achievement
The need to over come obstacles and obtain goals
Need for affiliation
Need to form and maintain relationships and to be with people
Need for intimacy
The need for close communication and sharing with someone else
Need for power
The need to have influence over other people
Personology
Study of a whole person
Picture story exercise
A tests that uses stories written about pictures to asses motive strength through narrative fantasy
Press
An external stimulus that increase level of a motive
