PSYB30H3 Lecture 12: lecture 12
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Personality lecture 12 (cid:0) w hat are the stylistic/characteristic ways in which we adapt to our environment (cid:0) motivational adaptations (cid:0) david mclelland. Idea of an implicit motive (cid:0) how motives are different from traits, and how they interact (cid:0) i n t roduction to social motivation. 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 . Why somebody has done what they have done. 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.
