PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Apperception, Projective Test, Eleanor Roosevelt

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600
• Professor: Lorena Ruci

Document Summary

Motivational psychologists ask, what drives people to do the things they do? . They search for motives that propel ppl to do what they do. Many psychologists view personality as consisting of few general motives. These motives operate through conscious or unconscious mental processes that influence on behaviour. Motive: internal state that arouses & directs behaviour toward specific object or goal. Often based on needs: states of tension within person. Motives propel ppl to perceive, think, & act in ways that serve to satisfy a need. Relation between needs & motives: *diagram in lecture slide* Deficit (haven"t eaten today) -> need (for food) -> motive (hunger) -> thoughts & fantasies (thinking about food, fantasizing about big meal, perceiving that rock looks like loaf of bread, etc. ) Or behaviours intended to satisfy need (go to store, buy food, bring it home, cook it)