PSYCO333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Thematic Apperception Test, Apperception, Cortisol

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO333
• Professor: Jamin Blatter

Document Summary

For any aspect of life, some people feel a deep need within it. Personality + context motive behaviour. Needs: behaviour needs, need: internal state that"s < satisfactory, psychological needs biological, strong need strong action, directive (help determine which happens, needs concern something goal objects / events, create movement toward or away. Internal need + external press motive behaviour. Press: press: external condition that creates desire to get/avoid something, e. g. pizza when you already ate, jealousy of award. Dispositional motives: naturally have more of a motive most of the time than others / motive dispositions personality. Henry murray: we all have same basic needs but everyone has dispositional tendency toward some particular level of each. Apperception: needs are projected into a person"s fantasy (psychoanalytic) the themes in your stories reflect your implicit motives deprivation isn"t necessary to arouse a motive. Studies of specific dispositional motives apperception used to measure dispositional motives.