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Learning ObjectivesUpon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
| Discuss the general goals of motivational personality psychologists. |
| Define and discuss deficits, motives, and needs. Discuss the relationships among these concepts. |
| Identify and discuss three key similarities between the motive approach and other intrapsychic approaches, particularly the psychoanalytic approach. |
| Discuss Henry Murray's theory of needs. What is the function of a need? What does it mean to say that the "motive" concept is dynamic, and why is Murray's motivational theory of needs a dynamic theory? |
| Discuss and give an example of Murray's concept of press. Distinguish between alpha press and beta press. |
| Discuss Murray's concept of apperception. |
| Discuss the Thematic Apperception Technique, or TAT. What was it designed to do? Discuss the relationships between the TAT and questionnaire measure of motives. |
| Discuss the difference between implicit motivation and explicit or self-attributed motivation. |
| Discuss the need for achievement and recent research on this need. |
| Discuss the need for power and recent research on this need. |
| Discuss the need for intimacy and recent research on this need. |
| Describe the key assumptions of humanistic personality psychologists. |
| Discuss the self-actualization motive. |
| Discuss Maslow's hierarchy of needs. What are the needs at each level, and what are the assumptions Maslow made about these needs and the satisfaction of these needs? |
| Discuss empirical research on Malsow's hierarchy of needs. |
| Identify several of the key characteristics of self-actualizing persons, according to Maslow. |
| Discuss Rogers' key contributions to humanistic personality psychology. |
| Discuss what Rogers meant by the following terms: Fully functioning person, positive regard, conditions of worth, conditional positive regard, unconditional positive regard, unconditional positive self-regard, anxiety, and distortion. |
| Discuss the key features of Rogers' client-centered therapy. What are the three conditions that need to be met before therapeutic progress can be made? |
| Discuss the results of recent research on empathy. |
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