NEEDS AND MOTIVES PERSPECTIVE Flashcards
- define needs and motives and the distinction between the two - describe the needs interpretation of Henry Murray - describe motive states and motive dispositions - define press - explain Murray's measure—the TAT - explain McClelland's ideas about motives - describe what the needs for achievement, affiliation, intimacy and power are.
a fundamental principle of the motives approach is that behavior is best understood as a reflection of the strength of the person’s
A) press
B) needs
C) desires
D) wants
B) needs
an internal state that’s less than satisfactory, a lack of something necessary for well-being
A) press
B) needs
C) desires
D) wants
B) needs
Murray began the need approach to personality and defined a need as
A) an internal state that’s less than satisfactory, a lack of something necessary for well-being
B) Cognitive–affective clusters organized around readiness for a particular kind of experience
C) an internal directional force that determines how people seek out or respond to objects or situations in the environment
D) none of the above
C) an internal directional force that determines how people seek out or respond to objects or situations in the environment
what kinds of needs need to be satisfied repeatedly?
A) achievement needs
B) psychological needs
C) biological needs
D power needs
C) biological needs
what influences a needs intensity of the behavior pertaining to it?
A) cognition
B) motive
C) direction
D) strength
D) strength
which of the following is not a term reflected in the strength of a need?
A) priority
B) vigor
C) thoroughness
D) goals
D) goals
which of the following does not relate to directive nature of needs
A) goals
B) events
C) movement
D) priority
D) priority
who said motives are “clusters of cognitions with affective overtones, organized around preferred experiences and goals”
A) Murray
B) McClelland
C) Atkinson
D) Trope
B) McClelland
Cognitive–affective clusters organized around readiness for a particular kind of experience
A) needs
B) motive
C) press
D) behaviour
B) motive
what are the basic theoretical elements to the motive perspective?
- needs
- motive
- press
what do needs work through, that bring us a step closer to behaviour?
A) behaviour
B) action
C) motive
D) press
C) motive
the need for food occurs in the tissue of the body, what that need results in a motive state called
A) hunger
B) action
C) behavior
D) movement
A) hunger
what distinguishes needs from motives?
A) the action we take
B) subjective experience
C) objective experience
D) external influences
B) subjective experience
Murray used the term press to refer to
A) an external condition that prompts a desire to get (or avoid) something
B) a motivational state you experience
C) internal directional force that determines how people seek out or respond to objects or situations in the environment
D) clusters of cognitions with affective overtones, organized around preferred experiences and goals
A) an external condition that prompts a desire to get (or avoid) something
a press applies purely to
A) achievement needs
B) psychological motives
C) biological motives
D power needs
B) psychological motives
According to Murrays view, being around someone who’s engaged may increase your motive to be in a close relationship would be an example of
A) press
B) needs
C) desires
D) wants
A) press
people writing about _____ and _____ in personality often use the two terms interchangeably
A) needs; motives
B) needs; desires
C) motives; desires
D) wants; desires
A) needs; motives
motives vary across ____ and _____
A) people; classes
B) time; situations
C) disposition; classes
D) achievement; situations
B) time; situations
posits that individuals exhibit stable differences in their achievement, affiliation, and power motives - shaping their capacity to perceive performance, social affiliative, or competitive contexts as rewarding
A) trait dispositions
B) motive disposition
C) achievement disposition
D) strong motive
B) motive disposition
Murray believed
A) not all people have the same basic needs
B) that within cultures, people have the same needs, but not across cultures
C) all people have the same basic needs, but that everyone has a dispositional tendency toward some particular level of each need
D) none of these answers are correct
C) all people have the same basic needs, but that everyone has a dispositional tendency toward some particular level of each need
Murray used the term ______ for the process of projecting ones fantasy imagery onto some objective stimulus
A) apperception
B) introjection
C) proprioception
D) reflection
A) apperception
the process of apperception refer to
A) study of nonverbal behaviour
B) tendency to see different events as satisfying the same needs
C) perceiving stimuli in light of ones own experiences and motives
D) study of verbal behaviour
C) perceiving stimuli in light of ones own experiences and motives
if you were taking the Thematic Apperception Test, you would be
A) writing about the early experiences with your mother
B) viewing a set of pictures and asked to create a story about each one
C) completing word association tasks
D) rating the extent to which a variety of words apply to you
B) viewing a set of pictures and asked to create a story about each one
through the Thematic Apperception Test, the key assumption of apperception is
A) you will show a decrease in achievement imagery
B) the themes that emerge in your stories will reflect your implicit motives
C) the themes that emerge in your stories will reflect your explcit motives
D)
B) the themes that emerge in your stories will reflect your implicit motives
Early research using the TAT to assess achievement motivation revealed what about subjects exposed to success or to failure?
A) If people succeed at a task, they show a decrease in achievement imagery, but if they fail, they show an increase in achievement imagery
B) If people fail at a task, they show a decrease in achievement imagery, but if they succeed, they show an increase in achievement imagery
C) If people fail at a task, they show a decrease in achievement imagery, but if they succeed, they show an increase in achievement imagery
D) achievement imagery was elevated in both people who had experienced a failure or success at a task
D) achievement imagery was elevated in both people who had experienced a failure or success at a task
the finding that failure and success can lead to achievement motives led McCelland to conclude that
A) failure can occur despite the need for achievement
B) success can be interpreted to the task at hand
C) deprivation is not necessary to arouse a motive
D) deprivation is necessary to arouse a motive
C) deprivation is not necessary to arouse a motive
the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) procedure was developed into variations using using other pictures and in its various forms is now often referred to as
A) projective tests (PJT)
B) picture story exercise (PSE)
C) Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank (RISB)
D) Draw-A-Person Test
B) picture story exercise (PSE)
people low in the need for achievement prefer tasks that are
A) very easy
B) very hard
C) somewhere in the middle
D) both very easy and very hard
D) both very easy and very hard
people high in the need for achievement prefer tasks that are
A) very easy
B) very hard
C) somewhere in the middle
D) both very easy and very hard
C) somewhere in the middle
people high in the need for achievement prefer tasks of moderate difficulty because
A) such tasks make them look good to others
B) such tasks provide the greatest information about the persons ability
C) they fear at a task that is too easy
D) they know they will be unable to perform a difficult task
B) such tasks provide the greatest information about the persons ability
the extent to which a task provides information about something
A) difficulty
B) diagnosticity
C) apperception
D) distinguishable
B) diagnosticity
the need for achievement relates to
A) persistence in the face of failure
B) preference for diagnostic test items
C) economic rises and decline of cultures
D) all answers are correct
D) all answers are correct
a study by McClelland who focused on the role of economic growth and achievement across 23 cultures between 1925 to 1950 found a pattern suggesting that
A) achievement is expressed in varying ways among women, depending on the direction they take in their lives.
B) achievement motivation, reflected in imagery produced economic achievement
C) the shifts in achievement motive had economic consequences
D) people in high-level politics have the task of mobilizing others (which draws on a different need), and they often have little control over outcomes
B) achievement motivation, reflected in imagery produced economic achievement
what of the following is true regarding achievement needs
A) The pursuit of achievement needs depends on the way that people’s needs fit their views of themselves and the world they live in.
B) Achievement needs are solely determined by genetic factors.
C) Achievement needs are static and do not change over time.
D) Achievement needs are entirely shaped by external influences and societal expectations.
A) the pursuit of achievement needs depends on the way that peoples needs fit their views of themselves and the world they live
Winter (1973) studied the need for power, which is
A) the motive to be expressed in socially accepted ways
B) the motive to have impact on others, to have prestige, to feel strong compared to others
C) motive to spend time with others and form friendly social ties
D) the desire to experience warm, close, and communicative exchanges with another person
B) the motive to have impact on others, to have prestige, to feel strong compared to others
picture story exercise (PSE) responses that have images of forceful, vigorous action, especially action that evokes strong emotional responses in others reflects
A) need for dominance
B) the need for power
C) the need for achievement
D) need for affiliation
B) the need for power
according to research on the desire for power, cortisol
A) decreases in people with high need for power after they experience a failure
B) increases in people with high need for power after they experience a failure
C) increases in people with a low need for failure when they experience a failure
D) does not have any affect on people with high or low need for power
B) increases in people with high need for power after they experience a failure
research by Schultheiss et al (2005) found that testosterone ________ in men who have a high need for power after success and ______ after a failure
A) decreases; increases
B) increases; decreases
C) stays the same; increases
D) stays the same; decreases
B) increases; decreases
Winter 1988 suggested that the power motive plays out in two ways depending on whether or not the person acquires a sense of
A) socialisation
B) domination
C) responsibility
D) prestige
C) responsibility
Winter and Barenbaum 1985 found that among men low in responsibility, the need for power was related to
A) socialisation and the need to interact
B) aggressive tendencies and drinking
C) desire to experience warm and close exchanges with another person
D) both A and B
B) aggressive tendencies and drinking
In PSE responses, the need for _______ is reflected in concern over acceptance by others and by active attempts to establish or maintain positive relations with others.
A) affiliation
B) intimacy
C) power
D) socialisation
A) affiliation
people high in the need for affiliation feel _____ if they think others are judging their interpersonal skills and are sensitive to _______ expressions from others
A) angry; nervous
B) nervous; angry
C) nervous; happy
D) validated; angry
B) nervous; angry