Types of motivation?
- Achievement motivation
- Affiliation motivation
What is Affiliation motivation?
- Desire for friends, partners
- Direct thoughts toward affiliation
What is Achievement motivation?
- Desire for achievement
- Direct thoughts toward achievement
Need for Cognition
Wanting/liking to think
Need for Cognitive Closure
Want to know the answer with certainty
- I need to know the answer!
- No ambiguity, tell me what’s right vs. wrong
Need to belong
People NEED to belong (different to just wanting to)
- People readily form social bonds
- Repeated interactions satisfying, not having them dissatisfying
- People think differently about people than things
- Breakups and loss the biggest life stressors
- Lack of belonging health problems
- Belonging better longevity predictor than nutrition
- Infants die without touch
Evolutionary perspective
- Opportunity cost—limited time in the day
- Mating goals
- Achieve genetic fitness…right now!
- Achievement goal
- Build equity and value to cash in later
- On mating goal
Fast vs. Slow life strategy
Fast = mate now!!!
e.g. fish
Slow = build up your achievements and then mate (achievement goals then mating goal)
Types of motivations for power
- Prestige Motivation
- Dominance Motivation
What is Dominance Motivation
- Achieve power through force, intimidation
e.g. gorillas
What is Prestige motivation?
- Achieve respect through achievements
Judgment vs. Development Goals (Carol Dweck)
Judgment goal (bad for improving)
- Want to impress
- Avoids criticism, even when constructive
Development goal (good)
- Want to improve
- Accepts constructive criticism
What is Entity Theory?
- Believe IQ is fixed
- Don’t try as hard to improve
- Don’t improve
What is Incremental Theory?
- Believe IQ can be improved
- Try hard to improve
Maslow Hierarchy of Needs
- Satisfy lower needs before working toward higher needs
- Once higher levels achieved can sacrifice lower ones
- bravery
- fasts
Maslow (update by Kenrick)
- Emphasize mating, not individual flourishing
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: How do you actually achieve
needs?
culture, reputation
