Exam 5: The Motive Perspective

People high in need for achievement prefer tasks of intermediate difficulty because:

McClelland's training program deemphasizes cognitive processes.

McClelland has suggested that self-reports measure__________ . In contrast he has suggested that the TAT measures__________ .

Women high in the need for power tend to have:

Describe what people who are high in need for affiliation are like.

According to Murray, hunger would be a ___________, whereas the smell of a fresh pizza would be a__________ .

Briefly define what is meant by need and press.

People with high fear of failure feel __________when they imagine success.

Briefly describe the Thematic Apperception Test and why its developers thought it would be effective.

In laboratory settings, people lower in need for achievement prefer tasks that are:

McAdams suggested that the need for affiliation has more of a "doing" orientation and the need for intimacy has more of "being" orientation.

Which of the following is NOT a valid criticism of the motive approach?

People low in need for achievement prefer tasks that are either very easy or very hard

Implicit and self-attributed motives are always congruent with one another.

A combination of a low need for affiliation and a high need for power relates to managerial success.

Among family-oriented women, high achievement needs are associated with:

McClelland argued that implicit motives are more basic than self-attributed motives

Subjects induced to fail at a task subsequently show greater achievement imagery in responses to TAT pictures.

A press is an internal state that creates a desire to obtain or avoid something.

A task that provides an accurate assessment of ability is considered: