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After studying Chapter 11, you should be able to
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discuss the general goals of motivational personality psychologists; |
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define and discuss deficits, motives, and needs--as well as the relationships among these concepts; |
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identify and discuss three key similarities between the motive approach and other intrapsychic approaches, particularly the psychoanalytic approach; |
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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? You should also be able to explain why Murray's motivational theory of needs is a dynamic theory; |
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discuss and give an example of Murray's concept of press, and distinguish between alpha press and beta press; |
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discuss Murray's concept of apperception; |
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discuss the Thematic Apperception Technique, or TAT. What was it designed to do? Discuss the relationships between the TAT and questionnaire measure of motives; |
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discuss the difference between implicit motivation and explicit or self-attributed motivation; |
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discuss the need for achievement and recent research on this need; |
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discuss the need for power and recent research on this need; |
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discuss the need for intimacy and recent research on this need; |
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describe the key assumptions of humanistic personality psychologists; |
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discuss the self-actualization motive; |
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discuss Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and be able to explain what the needs are at each level, and the assumptions Maslow made about these needs and the satisfaction of these needs; |
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discuss empirical research on Malsow's hierarchy of needs; |
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identify several of the key characteristics of self-actualizing persons, according to Maslow; |
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discuss Rogers' key contributions to humanistic personality psychology; |
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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; |
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discuss the key features of Rogers' client-centered therapy, and be able to name the three conditions that need to be met before therapeutic progress can be made; and, finally, |
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discuss the results of recent research on empathy. |