Lecture 10 and 11: The 3 Big Motives

Question 1

What are the 3 big motives?

Answer 1

• Power
  
  • having an impact on others
• Achievement
  
  • recurrent preference for experiences of doing well and being successful
• Intimacy
  
  • recurrent preference for experiences of warm, close, and communicative interactions with others
  • Affiliation:
    
    • recurrent preference for positive affective relationships

Question 2

How do the 3 big motives affect our lives?

Question 3

Does it matter if we are not aware of our standing on motives?

Question 4

How do we assess motives?

Answer 4

• We show a picture to the participants, and we ask them to write in 5 minutes a story of what is happening on the scene and how the characters got there.
• Initially by Murray who thought that people would project their own desired in the story
• The scores are processed by expert encoders and each person would write 6 stories. Then, the word length and word coding would be used to determine the motivation of the writer.

Question 5

Which activities would you prefer depending on your motivation?

Answer 5

• nAch:
  
  • moderate challenge
  • extensive feedback
  • personal responsability
• nPow:
  
  • exerting influence
  • being noticed
• nInt:
  
  • conversing with people in warm, reciprocal manner

Question 6

Give an example of how activities, behaviour and motivation come into play?

Answer 6

In a study on college students, the participants were asked to throw disks onto a goal.

First, their motivations were measures, and they measured how far from the goal they would stand.

Pow: if audience, far else random distance

Ach: hi: Position with 50/50 of success, lo: random

Question 7

Which occupational preferences fit better the motivations?

Answer 7

• nAch: small businesses owner, research scientists, sales people
• nPow: manager, clergy
• nInt: counsellor, mediator

Question 8

How do motivations affect our interpersonal interactions?

Answer 8

• nAch: shared activities that are goal oriented
• nPow: agentic, assertive style in relations
  
  • likes to organize and come up with new ideas
• nInt: dyadic (close) interactions with close friends

Question 9

Why do we consider the Big 3 Motives?

Answer 9

• They can be identified in young children
• Can be seen in all cultures
• Can be linked with a natural incentive

Question 10

What relation do Big 3 motives have with the Big 5 traits?

Answer 10

No relation

Question 11

What is the Interpersonal Perception Task?

Answer 11

Participants are shown and image and they are asked a question on what the situation might be and given two options.

Question 12

What is the Reading the Mind in Eyes Test?

Answer 12

The participants are provided a cropped image of the eyes of a character. Through that they have to select one emotion out of 4 which is represented by the character’s eyes.

Question 13

How can we measure implicit motives?

Answer 13

Through story writing

Question 14

How can we measure explicit motives?

Answer 14

Through self- Report

Question 15

When do we develop implicit motives?

Answer 15

Very early in childhood

Question 16

When do we develop explicit motives?

Answer 16

Middle childhood