PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Individuation, Big Five Personality Traits, Projective Test
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**** re-listen to the on line lecture needed for the 1st half of lecture ********* **** Introduction to social motivation: mcclelland"s definition of a motive/need: A recurrent preference or readiness for a particular quality of experience, which energizes, directs, and selects behavior in certain situations. Some motive are known to us, and some motive we have access to. We can look inside of ourselves and find something and go and pursuit it; Most of the motive are not conscious intension. Trait refers to the questions of what like what feelings. The motive under the behaviour; what is the motive underline the behaviour. Thematic apperception test (tat): psychology rely on the self-report data, in other words, it is about what people tells. Participants are required to write a story based on the same picture. When face an ambigious thing, but you have to pull out the story on it, so that you have to pull out the story of yourselves.
