PSY 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: Pollination Syndrome, Nomothetic, Procedural Knowledge
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Motivation and emotion as personality processes - nicole olivas. Drive behavior by influencing what you attend to, think about, and do. Example: hunger: attend to smells of food think about where to get food seek food. People may not always know what they want. Without goals, we may lack meaning and motivation. Need to focus on short-term goals to achieve long-term goals. Long-term goals that organize areas of one"s life. Describe thoughts and behaviors aimed at specific outcomes. Strive toward finding and maintaining strong emotional relationships. Strive toward strength and having influence over others. Useful for seeing the similarities and differences among goals. Seeking to judge or validate an attribute in oneself. *these can change over time and across situations. Believe that personal qualities can change with time and experience. Sequence of activities that progress toward a goal. Traits can produce characteristic adaptations or generalized scrips. Example: an agreeable person follows a warm, friendly, approachable script.
