PSY 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Caffeine, Takers
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Henry murray - among his list of human motives. High need for achievement - desire for significant accomplishment, for mastering skills or ideas, for control and for rapidly attaining a high standard. Number of achievement related ideas per story counted. Connection between achievement motivation and socialization (parental influence) Prefer jobs that give them personal responsibility for outcomes. Very competitive, time conscious, hard-driving, demand perfection, workaholic. Non competitive, relaxed, easy going, not as time conscious. Smoke more, sleep less, drink less milk and drink more caffeine. Type a is more physiologically aroused than type b. Underlying difference between type and and b - need for control. Type a"s want something after being told they can"t have it. Less likely to give up control of a task. Anxiety related specifically to social interactions or anticipated social interactions. Think they will be evaluated in a negative way. Even though emotions fluctuate, can be stable to.
