PSYB30H3 : notes
Document Summary
This is the second half of the course. For the next several weeks, we will attempt to fill in the details. Will be discussing the stylistic ways in which they adapt to their environments. Will be discussing a new domain of concepts; characteristics adaptations. Pioneered the study of several motivations; what he called needs. He introduced the idea of implicit motives; that were outside of our conscious awareness. Motives are like a lens; a way of filtering ones experience into the kinds of qualities that are relevant to you. The motivational preferences that ppl have will influence the way in which they view the world. Traits refer to the question of what; what behav"s do ppl show, what though do ppl typically have? etc. Motivational constructs reference questions that begin with why. This is us seeking the underlying motivation for their behav. s. Motive and conscious intention; some motives are aware to us and we have access to them.
