Needs and Motives

Question 1

What is a Need? What are the 2 Types?

Answer 1

an unsatisfactory internal condition that motivates behaviour.
2 types:
Biological needs: essential for body to run properly. primary.(food, water, air, sex, pain avoidance)
Psychological needs: required to feel good emotionally. May stem from bio needs. Secondary. (intimacy, self esteem)

Question 2

Needs show up in ____ when they aren’t being ___.

Answer 2

behaviour, met

Question 3

What are motives?

Answer 3

cognitions (thoughts) with effective overtones, organized around preferred experiences and goals. (ex. The feeling of hunger motivates us to satisfy our need for food)

Question 4

What is a press?

Answer 4

An external stimulus which increases or decreases the level of a motive. (ex. good looking sandwich can be a press for hunger motive)

Question 5

What are dispositional motives?

Answer 5

Motives that we have a naturally high or low level of, vary from person to person. (ex. high or low sex drive)

Question 6

What is apperception?

Answer 6

he projecting of a motive onto an ambiguous external stimulus via imagery

Question 7

What is the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)? What are its 3 steps?

Answer 7

a test that assesses the strength of a motive through narrative fantasy. Most dominant needs and motives should appear. 3 basic steps:
1. Asked to create a story from ambiguous pictures shown to them
2. Describe what’s happening (thoughts, feelings, relationships)
3. Story told should reflect needs and motives

Question 8

What is Inhibited power motivation?

Answer 8

the condition of having more need for power than for affiliation but restraining its use