Exam #3 Flashcards
Motivation Acronym
M - Major Components
O - Overt/manifest and hidden/latent
T - Tension reduction
I - Internal and external forces
V - Valence
A - Achieve goals
T - Thirst for Variety
I - Individual Differences
O - Order
N - Need Hierarchy
Major Components
- energy and direction
- ex. sitting on the couch and the remote dies
Overt/manifest and hidden/latent
- conscious/outer motives vs subconscious/inner feelings motive
- things you tell people vs things you don’t
Internal and External Forces
Information Processing Diagram
Valence
the desirability of an object in each situation (V = f (tension; product attractiveness)
- ex. water is most attractive when you’ve been working all day and you are dehydrated
Achieve Goals
- buying products/services to solve problems & achieve certain goals
Thirst for variety
novelty seeking (trying something new)
Order
- some people’s needs for organization is higher than others
- ex. his wife and the dishwasher
Need Hierarchy
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (Physiological, safety, belonging, self-esteem, self-actualization)
- depth interviews/surveys can’t expose these types of answers
- Ex) Couple having a discussion over dinner abt the cruise, viewer makes a script for couple, this helps inform the tester what the viewer actually thinks about cruise lines
Stress Curve
- Performance on left, stress level on right
- too little stress —-> burn-out
- perfect medium
Instinct theory - McDougall
- believed all motivations come from internal, catalog of biological motives
- freud took instinct theory and took further
- > creative, sex drive, destruction
Field Theory - Kurt Lewin
- object and situation/environment
- “field” = your environment (motives are learned from what’s going on around me)
Hierarchy of needs - Maslow
- Physiological
- Safety
- Belongingness
- Esteem
- Self-actualization
Learned needs theory - McClelland
- socialization/reference groups
W.J. McGuire
Motives include …
- Consistency & Categorization (“need for order”)
- attribution (causation) - new stimuli we try to immediately find out what caused it, to what do I attribute that thing
- Ex) Kenny Anderson (brings up the team), ads supporting car dealership (ppl believe him and not that he’s getting paid)
—> ego defense & reinforcement
- Ex) buying a new car, get there late bc u you want ppl to see it and wait for the reinforcement, but no one says anything