PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Personality Psychology, Socalled, Primary Motive

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Carol Anne Hendry

Document Summary

Personality psychology- chapter 11 notes motives and personality. Need: murray began by defining the term need, a concept he viewed as similar to the analytic concept of drive. This interaction is what makes the concept of motive dynamic: the term dynamic is used to refer to the mutual influence of forces within a person- in this case, the interaction of various motives within a person. Press: another important contribution of murray to personality psychology was a specific way of thinking about the environment, according to murray, elements in the environment affected a person"s needs. Murray and his research associate christina morgan to develop a formal technique for assessing these two constructs: they called this the thematic apperception test (tat, tat consists of s set of black-and-white images that are ambiguous. The person is then asked to make up a story about what is happening in the picture.