SOP 3004 Chapter 2: Lecture & Textbook
4 Oct 2015
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The person is the social individual ! A dynamic combination of motivations, knowledge, and feelings, all of which work with one another to produce that fascinating range of social thought and behavior! Motivation: the driving force, the energy that moves people toward their desired outcomes ! Goal: a desired outcome; something one wishes to achieve or accomplish : many of our goals are subgoals - steps towards a larger goal! Motives: goals with a broad scope, such as the desires to gain status, protect family members from harm, and so on! Sometimes people don"t pay much attention to what they are doing and why they are doing it! Thought suppression: we sometimes try to reach dif cult goals by suppressing thoughts incompatible with those goals ! Sunday, august 30, 2015: ex: suppressing desserts when on a diet, trying not to think about something often back res !
