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Lecture 11 - The Big Three Motives - October 10 Flashcards

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1
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what are The Three Levels of Personality

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traits
personal concerns
life narrative

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what can personal concerns be broken down into

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Big 3 Motives;
Attachment Styles;
Self-regulatory Style;
Developmental Stages

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define personal concerns

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More particular aspects of personality that describe personal adaptations to motivational and developmental challenges and tasks

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define Life Narrative

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Internalized and evolving narratives of the self that people construct to integrate the past, present and future and provide life with a sense of meaning and purpose

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what are Motives

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Something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.

The goal of a person’s actions.

Relatively enduring preferences for a broad
class of affectively charged incentives, such as 
having impact or doing things better.
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How to assess motives?

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showing an ambiguous pic with a beginning middle and end, for about 5 minutes and this story reveals what the individuals motivational concerns are.

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what are the big three motives

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n Achievement
n Power
n Intimacy (can also be called into n affiliation)def

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define n Achievement

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  • a recurrent preference for experiences of doing well and being successful.
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define n Power -

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a recurrent preference experiences of having impact on others

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define n Intimacy -

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a recurrent preference for experiences of warm, close, and communicative interactions with others.

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define n Affiliation –

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a recurrent preference for establishing, maintaining, or restoring positive affective relationships.

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which is more often used

n intimacy or n affiliation

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n intimacy

because n affiliation had a negative quality

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are the three motives dependent on eachother

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no, mostly independent

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what did Henry Murray (guy who created the picture story test) think the stories showed

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basically thought they were an X-ray into a person’s life, he thought it revelieve so much about them
probably not EVRYTHING but at least the big 3 traits

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How are the scores processed? (for the picture story tests)

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Empirically derived 
Objective coding system – expert coders
Number of stories
Word Length
Normal distribution
T-scores
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Validity Evidence of nAch: high in this you will be aroused by what

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if high in this, you are aroused by moderate challenge, personal responsibility ,
extensive feedback

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Validity Evidence of nPow: high in this you will be aroused by what

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if high in this, you are aroused by exerting influence and being noticed

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Validity Evidence of nInt: high in this you will be aroused by what

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if high in this, you are aroused by conversing with people in warm, reciprocal manner

19
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does each predict school success

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no because the school environment does not really offer “moderate challenge, personal responsibility ,
extensive feedback”

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Occupational Preferences for nAch

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small business owner
research scientists
sales people

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Occupational Preferences for nPow

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manager

clergy

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Occupational Preferences for nInt

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counsellor

mediator

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is there a relationship between the three motives

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negative between power and intimacy but everything else is independent

24
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can you be high on more than one motive

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yep– two

25
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what happens when someone is high on power and achievement

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empire builders (oprah. martha stewart)

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what are the interpersonal relations for people high in nInt

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dyadic interactions w close friends

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what are the interpersonal relations for people high in nPow

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agentic, assertive style in relations

leading the group

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what are the interpersonal relations for people high in nAch

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shared activities that are goal oriented

organize activities that are not too competitive

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Why these Three Big Motives?

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Can be identified in young children.

Can be seen in all cultures.

Can be linked with a natural incentive.

30
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what is the incentive with nAch

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mastery

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what is the incentive with nPow

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impact

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what is the incentive with nInt

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connection

33
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what are the Big Questions re Motives

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How do implicit motives relate to self-reported ones.
How do implicit motives relate to Big 5 traits.
How variable are motives across time and situations?
Can we change our motive profile?

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