PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Scientific Modelling, Motivation, Belongingness

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Know the key terminology of social and achievement motivation. Understand how people experience a need to belong. Understand how we can harness the power of intrinsic motivation. Motivation entails meeting our complex social and personal needs as well as satisfying basic biological drives. Needs associated with our basic physiological survival are more important than social or achievement needs. Once survival needs are met, then we can move to a higher-level need. Model has been criticized by many researchers for a few reasons: idea that we have to ful ll one need before moving on to the next is simplistic, hierarchy seemed to be biased toward an individualist (western) culture. Highlighted the fact that human motivation extends to number of different areas. Belonging is a need, not a want need to belong (af liation motivation): the motivation to maintain relationships that involve pleasant feelings such as warmth, affection, appreciation, and mutual concern for each persons" well-being.