PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Intelligence Quotient, Percentile, Autonomic Nervous System
30 Apr 2012
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Achievement motive=need to excel: harder worker, delay gratification, pursue competition. Situation al influences in achievement motives: strength of motivation, probability of success and incentive value of success. Fear of failure: motivation to avoid it. You are shown a picture (ambiguous picture) People with high achievement will project that and same with people with low achievement. It would be bases on the attributes /traits the therapist would be able to measure achivement motivation. Tat achievement: no clear guidelines, how would you translate this to consistent?-a number people would code/translate/evaluation the responses, tat test is match with objective data-a lot of subjective. Cognitive component- emotions have several components: most subjective conscious experience. Experience, intensity of emotion (only way to measure is by asking the person: positive psychology. Physiological component (by what we experience: bodily (autonomic) arousal-reaction of facial expression, affective neuroscience. Behavioural component *-5 or 6 basic emotions associated with outward expression: expression of emotions.
