Psychology 1000 Lecture 12: Psych Lecture jan 10th

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Nick Skinner

Document Summary

Psych lecture 2017-01-10: define and functions of motives, difficulties in theorizing, classification of motives, achievement motivation (emotion, emotion and motivation, emotional development. Primary motives: survival motives (eat, drinking, love) Secondary motives( motives that are learned, learn social motives, learn fears, achievement motivation is a secondary motivation) David mcullen-studied achievement motivation, why do secondary motives, why do they develop in different strengths in different people, need to measure strengths of secondary motives. His approach was: motives can be aroused (don"t feed someone for long time, person gets hungry), 2. Storytelling about ambiguous pictures- will reveal something about the person, you will be able to tell someones motives by there stories about there own fantasies. Someone with low achievement motivation will write something useless but someone with high achievement motivation will write something that benefits there life. Anagram test-reorganize letters to make other words, ex super to rearrange to purse. Tat test (thematic attention test)-measuring the strength of achievement motivation.