PSYC 2600 Chapter 11: Personality Psychology Chapter 11.docx
29 Mar 2012
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Motives are internal states that arouse and direct behavior towards specific objects or goals. Motives are often caused by a deficit (lack of something) Ex: if you haven"t eaten for a while, you are motivated by hunger. Motives are often based on needs, states of tension within a person. As a need is satisfied, the state of tension is reduced. Internal state - arouses and directs behavior toward a specific object or goal (satisfy a need) Motives propel people to perceive, think, and act in specific ways that satisfy the need. They differ from each other in type and amount. Deficits: having a lack of something (need not fulfilled) drives you to achieve, or eat, etc . Motives may be unconscious, in the sense that the person does not know explicitly what he or she wants. Motive approach is like a halfway between the intrapsychic and the dispositional domain. He proposed a list of fundamental human needs.
