PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Projective Test, Ted Kaczynski, Thematic Apperception Test
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Introduction: motivational psychologists ask, what drives people to do the things they do? , these motives operate through conscious or unconscious mental processes that generate intrapsychic influence on behavior. Motivational psychologists stress the importance of internal psychological needs and urges that propel people to think, perceive, and act in predictable ways. Why do we care about motives: motives are part of personality, differences contribute to major life outcomes, motives are stable over time motives tell us (part of) why people behave the way they do. Early motive theorists murray, mcclelland, mcadams: 2. Several types of needs: focal and diffuse, proactive and active, manifest and latent, conscious and unconscious, unconscious needs form and dissociated collective in what murray referred to as the later ego. Each person has a unique hierarchy of needs-individual"s needs can be thought of as existing at a different level of strength.
