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. (107 cards)
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