Lecture 12 Flashcards
Movie
Ordinary people
atypical therapist to make an alliance with difficult teen
McClellabd 1981 model - the complexity of personality
Behaviour is a function of person and environment
Environment:
Opportunities
Incentives
Constraints
Person: Motives - this lecture Traits Schemas Values Skills
Michael was wrong according to him. You can get correlations of .7 not .3 if you use multiple factors to predict things (like above(
Personal traits needed to be a good clinician
Motives - intimacy and power
Traits - agreeableness and extraversion (as meet a lot of clients per week)
Value - helping people in distress
Skills - empathy, decoding emotional expressions, listening skills
Schwarts theory of basic values
Rank order people values
Interpersonal perception task
Is used to assess interpersonal perception of people
Photos with a choice which reflect the social realities
Social skils
Reading the minds eye test
Photo of eyes with choices of emotions
Baron-cohen
Autists cant do it
Social intelligence
The picture story exercise
Show a picture, write a story, code for motivations (big 3)
Relation of big 5 to motives
(1) measured big 3 motives via stories
(2) self assessment of motivations
(3) traits
Results - zero correlation
Big 3 motives unrelated to traits and self-assessments
Correspondence between implicit and explicit motives
Over 100 studies measured n Achievement in stories and self-reports
Spangler, 1992
50 different scales made it
Want to replace it as expensive and time consuming
None correlate with stories
When predicting outcomes, implicit motives are better
2 types of motives
Definition
Measures
Incentives
Developmental timing
Implicit motives
Recurrent, non conscious desires for certain goal states
Picture story exercise
Activity - naturally occurring behaviour that is valued for its own sake
Very early in childhood, pre-verbal
Explicit motives
Conscious, cognitively elaborated images of the self as orientated towards particular goals
Questionnaires
Social: Motive is related to behaviour in line with social norms and expectations
Middle childhood
Achievement motive and self-participation
3 studies assessed implicit and self report motivation n Achievement
a)students
b)adults
C) elite athletes
Assessed daily level of sports participation
Implicit predicted it
Self-report does not predict
Combination of the two does not predict
Relationship between motives and striving
Get participants to make 10 goals such as “become noticeable to women”
Assessed implicit motivation via picture story task
r=.40
They are related
You will often choose goals that match with implicit ratings of motivations
Brunstein study on the importance of selecting goals that match motivation
1) assess motives
2) record goals
3) record mood over two weeks as these goals are met
When we make progress in goals that match our motivation, our affect is noticeably higher
Without matching, does not happen
ie if we are power motivated and achieve intimacy goals = no reaction
We respond better to matching goal success
How to tell what your implicit motives are?
No way to measure as uncorrelated with self reports or big 5 traits
Moderately correlated with personal goals
Possible to construct description from researched correlates ie interests and friendship style (nIntimacy = 1;1 preferred to groups)
Why is prof not a clinician
Dominant motive n Ach
Had the skills
Not intimacy or power motivated
