Unit 5Secondary Motives

Question 1

Needs definition

Answer 1

Any condition inherent to the person that is essential and necessary for life, development and wellbeing. Motivational states provide the impetus to act before harm is done so psychological and bodily well-being.
Physiological
Psychological
Social needs

Question 2

Secondary needs - psychological needs

Answer 2

Humans often seek enjoyment, fulfilment, and growth
Needs that urge us to explore, learn, and seek challenges w/ ultimate goal of emotional growth and satisfaction
Things that provide sense of competence, achievement, improving skill, autonomy, personal satisfaction

Question 3

What are psychological needs?

Answer 3

Needs that urge us to explore, lean and seek challenges, with the ultimate goal of emotional growth and satisfaction like tasks that lead to satisfaction of competence, or activities that stimulate imagination

Question 4

Why do we say organic psychological needs?

Answer 4

The term organism refers to living and active subjects in their interaction with the environment The understanding is based on a dialectic between the person and the environment; same time in their search for fulfilment, learning and emotional satisfaction, humans have an impact on and modify their environment

Question 5

What are behavioural motivators?

Answer 5

Things that give people the natural motivation to lean, grow and develop. Like the sense of autonomy, competence, relations, confidence, self-esteem

Question 6

Psychological needs drive…

Answer 6

a proactive willingness to seek out and interact with an environment that meets our emotional and cognitive needs

Question 7

What is autonomy?

Answer 7

the psychological need to experience self-determination and personal ratification in the initiation and regulation of one’s own behaviour

Question 8

Behaviour autonomous when…

Answer 8

our interests, prefrences and desires guide our decision-making process to participate or not

Question 9

Locus of causality

Answer 9

understanding the causal source of motivated actions, varying between internal and external

Question 10

Volition

Answer 10

free willingness to engage in an activity

Question 11

Perceived choice

Answer 11

The sense of choice in flexible environments, in contrast to obligation

Question 12

In order to feel self-determination…

Answer 12

you need to have internal causality, meaning you participate in ___ because you enjoy and value the activity.

Question 13

What happens is you only have external causality?

Answer 13

you won’t feel the self-determination because the environment would be of obligation and not enjoyment (lack of volition)

Question 14

In perceived choice people dont necessarily feel autonomy by…

Answer 14

simply offering a choice, when people choose from few limited options that do not reflect their value then there will be no significant satisfaction in autonomy

Question 15

What is a good example of autonomy?

Answer 15

relationships in general supportive or controlling. When there is autonomy support, aspects of engagement, development, learning performance and psychological well-being are enriched

Question 16

What are the three motivating styles?

Answer 16

Autonomy support (an interpersonal tone of understanding), Neutral (doing nothing), Controlling (the interpersonal tone of Pressure)

Question 17

What is competence

Answer 17

The need to interact effectively with the environment; desire to exercise one’s abilities and skills, generating the motivation to develop

Question 18

A key environmental events for competence are…

Answer 18

Optimal challenge, high structure and high tolerance for failure

Question 19

Flow

Answer 19

state characterised by maximum enjoyment and intense concentration, arises when challenge and ability are high. Perception of progress are essential to satify

Question 20

The more environments satisfy this need

Answer 20

the more people are willing to seek out and master challenges that allow them to grow and develop

Question 21

Relatedness

Answer 21

need to establish close emotional ties and bonds with other people

Question 22

To satisfy need for relatedness

Answer 22

one needs to confirm that social ties involve bother interest and affection

Question 23

A communal relationship is

Answer 23

able to satisfy the need for related ness by providing a warm and caring social context (ppl saying stuff about you) + it supports internalisation, the process by which a person adopts other beliefs

Question 24

Even hikkimori ppl

Answer 24

need affection (they found connection within their relatable groups)

Question 25

What makes a good day?

Answer 25

Finding confirm that pscyhological needs provide people with the psychological nutriments they need to experience good days and positive well-being

Question 26

Social needs are not

Answer 26

born with us, we gradually refine need through our experiences that lead us to value certain positive emotional experiences and to prefer activities that satisfy these acquired needs (emerge and change over time)

Question 27

Social needs broken down into three

Answer 27

Achievement, Affiliation, Power

Question 28

How are social needs experiences

Answer 28

as emotional and behavioural potentials that are activated in response to specific situation incentives

Question 29

Need for achievement…

Answer 29

drives people to seek success in competitions with a standard of excellence. The standard being a situation the ends in success or failure (competing with oneself or with others)

Question 30

People with high need for achievement

Answer 30

tend to respond to standards of excellence with approach oriented emotions (hope and pride)

Question 31

People with low need for achievement

Answer 31

tend to respond to standards of excellence with avoidance oriented emotions (anxiety and fear of failure)

Question 32

Affiliation

Answer 32

Desire to establish, maintain or restore positive affective relationships with others

Question 33

High affiliation

Answer 33

need to constantly to seek approval and emotional security from others because they experience anxiety

Question 34

Need for approval

Answer 34

seeking acceptance and security in interpersonal relationships

Question 35

Need for intimacy

Answer 35

Desire to engage in warm and close relationships, w/ less fear of rejection

Question 36

Power

Answer 36

When we influence other people, when other people follow our behaviour

Question 37

High need for power

Answer 37

Seek to establish, maintain or expand their impact, control or influence over others, groups, or environments

Question 38

What are the main focuses of power

Answer 38

dominance, reputation, status or position. Experience strong positive emotions when they have the opportunity to exert their influence 3

Question 39

What are people with high power needs like

Answer 39

they tend to be more vocal and influential BUT that doesn’t mean they are the most popular nor successful - people led by people with high needs for power tend to do the less ethical action due to lack of consideration of alternatives and less information sharing

Question 40

What are quasi-needs

Answer 40

transitory and disapear once the situational demand that provoked them is satisfied