PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Uncorrelated Random Variables, Toilet Training, Social Class

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 332
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

He developed the way of coding motives from speeches. These three are implicit concerns for thinking about either doing things well, having impact, and relating in close way to others. There is fundamental incentives (evolutionary determined) for each of them. Individual differences are due to largely inborn and early family experience. Parents with strict toilet training, high achievement motivation z. Intimacy has been more developed and replaced by need for affiliation. Recurrent preferences or desire for establishing, maintaining or restoring positive affective relations with others. This correlates with intimacy motivation by 0. 6. But problem with affiliation motive is that coding systems capture whether people worry about keeping relationship and whether being worried about being liked by others. Intimacy does not have worry component and more focuses on connection in a meaningful way with other person. No norms specific to gender, age, etc. Possible to construct description from research correlates e. g, interests, friendship.