PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Binge Eating, Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Robert Sternberg
24 Oct 2016
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Motive psychology: people differ in the type and strength of their motives. These differences cause or are associated with important life outcomes. Differences will be stable over time (trait, not state). Motives can answer why do people do what they do. Motive internal state that arouses and directs behaviour toward a specific object. Need a state of tension within the person. Motives are based on ends and as a need is satisfied, tension is reduced. Motives propel people to perceive, think, and act in ways that serve to satisfy a need. Drive - results from the need or goal. Hierarchy of needs: we have a variety, some stronger than others (order of hierarchy is individual to self) According to murray, it is the process of reducing the apt to recur tension, not being in a tensionless state, which is satisfying.
