PSYC 2600 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Projective Test, Human Nature, Enculturation
6 Mar 2017
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Motives & personality chapter 11, march 1st, 2017. Motive: some form of an internal state that arouses and directs behavior toward a specific object or goal, caused by a deficit, a lack of something, a discontent or issue that serves as a drive to propel us. We are trying to fill a void and eliminate a distress component: differ from each other in type and amount, often based on needs. Propel people to perceive, think, and act in ways that serve to satisfy a need. Motives are part of the intrapsychic domain for several reasons: psychoanalytic perspective. The order changes between people: individual"s needs can be thought of as existing at a different level of strength. The needs exist at different levels of strength: high levels of some needs interacted with the amounts of various other needs within each person. Contextual information can shift which motives are important to us at different times.
