PSYB30H3 Lecture 12: Lecture 12 Notes
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What are the stylistic/characteristic ways in which we adapt to our environment. One of the pioneers of social motivation. Motivation/need are interchangeable according to mclelland. How motives are different from traits, and how they interact. A motive: a recurrent preference or readiness for a particular quality of experience, which energizes, directs and selects behaviour in cetain situations. For mclelland, motive was a lens it"s a way of filtering our experiences. We each see the world differently according to different motivational preferences. Traits refer to what behaviour, thought, or feeling does someone have. Motivation refer to questions that begin with why . Difference between a motivation and a conscious intention. We are aware of some of our motives and intentions. But there are certain motivations that are only partly accessible to consciousness. Projective test : achievement motive believed that this was an implicit motivation so only partly conscious of it.
