Lecture 12 - How can we identify out dominant motivational orientation - October 15

Question 1

what is the equation for the Complexity of Personality (David McClelland’s 1981Model)

Answer 1

Behavior = Function of

Person and Environment

Question 2

for The Complexity of Personality (David McClelland’s 1981Model), what is payed attention to for person

Answer 2

moties
traits
schemas
values
skills

Question 3

The Complexity of Personality (David McClelland’s 1981Model) what is payed attention to for environment

Answer 3

opportunities
incentives
constraints

Question 4

does David McClelland’s believe that personality has correlations in predicting outcomes

Answer 4

Multiple correlation in predicting important outcomes

Question 5

Personal Qualities Needed to Be an Effective Clinician?

Answer 5

-Motives -> intimacy and power
- Traits -> agreeableness, extraversion (neuroticism?) ++ Value -> helping people in distress
+ Skills -> empathy, decoding emotional expressions, listening skills

Question 6

what are Schwartz theory of basic values

Answer 6

has to do with what you consider important

rank order a given lis of about 10-12 items in order of what is most important to you

Question 7

define benevolence

Answer 7

preservation and enhancement of the welfare of people whom one is in frequent personal contact

Question 8

how to test if someone is good at interpersonal

Answer 8

interpreting pictures

reading the mind in the eye (expressions)

Question 9

How strongly do the implicit motives (three) relate to other personality measures (big 5)?

Answer 9

traits and motives are independent

Question 10

Traits versus Motives (from McAdams)

Answer 10

“Needs interact with dispositional traits. In general, the way in which a person achieves a goal may be partly determined by traits, such as extroversion-introversion. But the nature of the goal itself is more likely to be determined by needs. Traits and needs therefore fulfill different functions in personality: needs establish goals, traits describe the behavioral means by which goals are met. In a sense, needs tell us why a person does what he does; traits tell us how.”

Question 11

what are the two types of motives

Answer 11

implicit anf explicit

Question 12

define implicit motives

Answer 12

Recurrent, non-conscious desires for certain goal states.

Question 13

define explicit motives

Answer 13

Conscious, cognitively elaborated images of the self as oriented toward particular goal states

Question 14

what are the measures fo r Implicit Motives

Answer 14

Picture Story Exercise: Operant

Question 15

what are the measures for Explicit Motives

Answer 15

Standard Questionnaires: Respondent

Question 16

what are the incentives for Implicit Motives

Answer 16

Activity: Naturally occurring behavior that is valued for its own sake.

Question 17

what are the incentives forExplicit Motives

Answer 17

Social: Motiveisrelatedtobehaviorthatisin keeping w social norms or expectations.

Question 18

what is the developmental timing for Implicit Motives

Answer 18

Very early childhood:pre-verbal

Question 19

what is the developmental timing for Explicit Motives

Answer 19

Middle Childhood

Question 20

Achievement Motive and Sports Participation: Gropel et al., 2016
what actually predicts how much the person did their sport

Answer 20

Implicit n Ach

NOT just self describing report of nAch

Question 21

motives seem to be associated with what

Answer 21

the goals we have/what we strive for

Question 22

How do motives and goals work together?

Answer 22

goal progress relates to higher well being
(if someone is high nAch and they are making process on their achievement goals they feel great, if they are making progress with their power goals but aren’t his nPow then it doesn’t really make them feel better…)

Question 23

How can I tell what my implicit motives are?

Answer 23

Uncorrelated with self-report motives.  Uncorrelated with traits.
 Difficult to have motives assessed
But…..
 Moderately correlated with personal goals.
 Possible to construct description from research correlates– e.g, interests,
friendship style.

Question 24

Personal Qualities Needed to Be

an Effective Scientific Researcher

Answer 24

+Motives -> Achievement Motive
+ Traits -> Conscientiousness, introversion (data / people)
Questions of the day?
+ Value ->
+ Skills ->
importance of advance in knowledge divergent thinking, identifying patterns