PSY 236 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Psy, Creative Problem-Solving, Normative Social Influence
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Traits aren"t enough to tell us about personality. Being an agent" requires us to know more. We need to look at the 3rd principle of an integrative science of personality from. Human lives vary on a wide range of motivational, social-cognitive and developmental adaptations, contextualized in time, place, and or social role (characteristic of adaptation). Motivation = forces and factors residing inside the person that energize and direct behavior. Extrinsic motivation: goal = exact a consequence from the social environment. Intrinsic motivation: goal: create an inner experience (e. g. satisfaction, mastery, knowledge, etc. ) Autonomy = desire to feel independent & self-directed. Relatedness = feel satisfying & coherent involvement in social world. The projective hypothesis: unconscious content revealed through ambiguous stimuli (personality tests like rorschach inkblot, tat) Implicit: more likely to predict performance and respond to nonverbal cues & incentives. Explicit: more likely to predict choices & judgement, and respond to verbal symbolic cues.
