PSYCO333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Apperception, Job Satisfaction, Cortisol

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

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Stress cause extraverts to seek out more, but not introverts. Need internal state that"s less than satisfactory, a lack of something necessary for well-being. Henry murray defined internal directional force that dtm how people seek out or respond to obj or. Chapter 5: the motive perspective situations in the env. Biological needs = food, water, air: needs to be satisfied repeatedly over time, as time pass = need gradually becomes more intesense, the person acts to cause it to be satisfied. Needs are directive they help dtm which of many possible actions occur at a given time, Motive clusters of cognitiions with affective overtones, organized around preferred exp and goals. Thoughts pertrain to goals that are either desired or undesired ; emotionally toned. Need for food occurs in tissues of the body. That need results in a motive state called hunger. Unlike the need for food, the hunger is experienced subjectively.