Personality 210 Psychology Notes (Part 5) Needs and Motivations

Heterosexual men

________ with high power motivation tend to prefer women who are dependent whereas independent women can be perceived as a threat.

affiliation

Need for ________ describes the motive to spend time with others and forming friendly social ties.

Conflict

________ is a term describing how two needs are opposite and how people can struggle to navigate which need to go after.

Motives

________ are clusters of cognitions with affective overtones, organized around preferred experiences and goals.

Fuse

________ is a term that describes how two needs can clash with each other.

power motive

Inhibited ________ describes the combination of multiple needs.

Intimacy

Need for ________ describes the desire to experience warm, close, and communicative exchanges with another person, to feel close to another person.

higher intimacy

People with ________ motivation have more one- on- one exchanges with other people but not in large- group interactions.

Primary needs

________ are rooted in biology (food, water, pain, etc.)

Secondary needs

_________ either derive from biological needs or are just rooted in our psychological makeup (need for power, need for achievement.)

System of needs

__________ are a series of needs describing how people have their own personal makeup of needs, and some needs are more important over others and are interrelated in some ways.

need

A ________ is an internal state that is less satisfactorily, a lack of something that is necessary for one’s well-being.

Work in service

__________ describes how one feels the need to order their life in order to be successful.