Week 5 Flashcards
What energizes, Select and directs behaviour?
Differ between people. Aroused more by and pay more attention and learn more quickly them
Goal concepts PersonalGoals PersonalStrivingPersonalProjectsLifeAspirations Motives: Implicit Explicit
What is unique about motives
We are often not aware of our motives. But can be easily assessed.
Achievement oriented. May think they are@ but are not in writing.
Unlike big five we are not necessarily aware of or accurate about motives
What are the big three motives?
Achievement-arecurrent
preferenceforexperiencesofdoingwellandbeingsuccessful.
n Power-arecurrentpreference
experiencesofhavingimpactonothers.
n Intimacy-arecurrentpreferenceforexperiencesofwarm,close,and
communicativeinteractionswithothers. n Affiliation – arecurrentpreferenceforestablishing,maintaining,orrestoring
positiveaffectiverelationships.
Beingvs(GettingandKeeping).
How may the big three motives be assessed?
Can be assessed and get one set of ideas. Or you can use a projective test. ambiguous. See reaction. Tell a story. Projected. Thematic apperception test.
Pick pictures. Make up a story. What lead to event. Moment feeling thinking outcome.
Budweiser commercial. Dog
Friendship.
Henry Murray’s exaggeration left Koestner to say?
An exaggeration says Koestner.Mccullen. Stories are a window or a thought sample slice.
Code beeps texts to ppl. Randomly ask action. And over time goes with motives high on.
Hmm what about twitter or fb
What we learn from ring toss in motives
Achievement oriented: Optimal moderate range
High need to be responsible for achievement
Want a lot of feedback wanted. To prosper.
High achievement at school. Optimal challenging optimal
Most school environment do not provide frequent feedback or any of these.
Optimal challenge@ personal responsibility. Extensive feedback.
More likely to be inventor small business owned.
Constant improvement. Feedback needed. And personal stuff. Slow.
High power far away IF AUDIENCE alone they are random.
High power want to be noticed
High power colourful. Latest gadget.
Join student associations. Emerge as a leadership.
High int. Spend time in dryads. Smile. Eye contact. Syncricy. Mimic bodily movements.
OccupationalPreferences and motives
Koestner was achiemsnt motivated.
Ach–>
smallbusinessowner
Pow–>manager but need other traits
nInt–>counsellor
What to take away from Martha Stewart Video
She is Very high on achievement. Standards. Martha is all about standards. And that’s a good thing. Good codes for achievement.
High on power. Usually found on superstars
Low on intimacy.
Want to make sure everyone hears your message.
Motives and effect on interpersonal relations?
Ach->sharedactivities
thataregoaloriented
Shared activity goal oriented.
Connect to kids. Only saw daughters fiends at lunch time. JNuary blossom. School yard.
Epic falls. Six or seven girls picks some activity ballet and do a performance. Until something terrible happens and rate. Sophie invented this.
Like baseball at the park. Trim it down.
Tag up action base ball. achievement motivated. Simplistic. Hedonic task oriented. Influence how to conducted relationships.
Pow->agentic,assertivestyleinrelations
Assert self in large group.
Intimacy->dyadic
interactionswclose
friends
Self disclosure. Highly intimacy motivated people. Done in very smart way. Who and is it reciprocal. Designed to be two way. High intimate more self disclosure. Very appropriate. Close friends when reciprocal.
CorrespondenceBetweenImplicitand
ExplicitMotives(andalsopersonalgoals)
Self report and story correlation. Is ZERO.
explicit vs implicit. Sponsduos sly don’t think about
Self reports are only about how you think about yourself what others do.
Why3? Developmentalorigins? Independenceofmotives? Genderdifferences? Counselling? OtherQuestions? InsertTalkingTwinsInsertSeaOtters
Sea otters and talking twins
Traits vs motives relation
McAdams
needsestablishgoals,traitsdescribethe
behavioralmeansbywhichgoalsaremet.Inasense,needstelluswhyapersondoeswhathedoes;traitstellushow.
Choosing a career requires consideration of motives. Ex. In Clas?
Psychotherapy session.
Skilled with adolescent. Deal with ambivalence.
This movie can inspire.
Buy is it right for.
Did not fit Koestner though. He thought it might
The Complexity of Personality
McClelland
Behavior=FunctionofPersonandEnvironmentMotives
Opportunities
TraitsIncentives
SchemasConstraints
Values
Skills
What can we say about Rhonda Amsel’s Motives
Rhonda warmth.
Power need to speak out and persuade.
MBA Harvard. Quiet book. Link to extraversion@ need for power
Classes don’t satisfy any motives so impersonal.
Stats for the complexity of personality?
Any motive only correlate .2 Personality complex though. Multiple correlation analysis. .6 to .7 Wow quite high.
Personal Qualities Needed to Be an Effective Clinician
Motives->intimacyandpower
-Traits->agreeableness,extraversion(neuroticism?)+Schemas->optimism
Beliefs influence how you interpret things. Understand world.
Optimism. Pessimism.
++Value->helpingpeopleindistress
?Skills->empathy,decodingemotionalexpressions
Uprising fact about lawyer’s motives
Lawyer not necessarily high power. Not so much impact influence. Meet needs client
Interpersonal perception task
Some people more skilled at understanding behaviour and identifying it.
Why three motives and what are they
nAch–moderatechallenge, personalresponsibility, extensivefeedback nPow–exertinginfluenceandbeingnoticednInt–Conversingwithpeopleinwarm, reciprocalmanner.
Achievement-arecurrent preferenceforexperiencesof doingwellandbeingsuccessful.n Power-arecurrent preferenceforexperiencesof havingimpactonothers. n Intimacy-arecurrent preferenceforexperiencesof warm,close,and communicativeinteractions withothers.
Natural incentives
Natural incentives:
Variety & challenge;
Impact;
connection;
We see this in early dev.
Correlation of motives?
Achievement independant.
Power and intimacy. Negatively correlated.
Relation of traits to motives
Implicit does not correlate with big five or explicit.
Implicit Motives
Non conscious , independant of social context, unlike explicit motives
Managers need which motives?
High power low affiliation
Mismatched motives?
Ego depletion
Descrepancy. Push yourself more. More ego depleted. Will catch on u.
Student ex.
Over time volition all student. Motives do not match up. Draining. Students. Life draining.
Congruence. Less depleting
Implicit motives and their connection to personal goals
Well being increases with progress on goals.
Connected with motives. High c
Achievement. and goals improved@ but not if goals were not related to motives , they were not as important/effective
How can I tell what my implicit motives are?
Uncorrelatedwithself-reportmotives.
Uncorrelatedwithtraits.
Difficulttohavemotivesassessed
But…..
Moderatelycorrelatedwithpersonalgoals.
Possibletoconstructdescriptionfromresearchcorrelates–e.g,interests,friendshipstyle.
Or stoners dominant motive?
Achievement.
And by the way, efficiency might have been a better term according to McClellan
Why did Koestner not become a clinician?
Lackofknowledgeabouttheactualjob?
Wrongtraitprofile?
Wrongmotiveprofile?
Unluckycircumstances?
Not power oriented, or independantly from power remember. Extraverted.
Also not enough down time, hence hoping ppl would not show up and preferring research.
Can also look at leisure activities. As motives.
Give example?
Example boxing and stand up comedy.
Motive front is power.
Other guy needed affiliation. Project manager could not manage. Lack in power. In Koestner masters group.
Koestner ach.
Ideasaboutsuccessatmost professions:
SusanCainadvice:
Myideasaboutequifinality
Motives and introversion respectively
But
Many different ways to be successful
In other words there are exceptions.
