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PSY 319 Exam 3 Questions With Correct Answers

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PSY 319 Exam 3 Questions With Correct
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an introduction to motivation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Central position
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of motivation in psychology
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- Motivation concerns conditions responsible for variations in intensity,
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quality, an direction of ongoing behavior
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Metaphors for Motivation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-person as machine
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person as machine - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- People's behaviors and
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actions are reflexive and involuntary, performed without conscious
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awareness
- Pushed by internal needs or drives
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Metaphors for Motivation (cont'd) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Person as
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scientist
- Person as intentional
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Person as scientist - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- People seek knowledge
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and understanding as a way of mastering their environment
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,- Aim to make accurate predictions about their environment
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Person as intentional - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Develops goals and
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action plans |




Meaning and importance of Motivation in the Workplace classic
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formula: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-(motivation x ability)- situational
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constraints= PERFORMANCE |




situational constraints: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-things that slow you
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down at work (bad computer)
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Module 8.2: Motivational Theories- Classic Approaches - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Person-as-machine theories |




Person-as-machine theories - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Need theory by | | | | | | | |



Abraham Maslow |




- All humans have basic set of needs that express themselves over life
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span of individual as internal "pushes" or drives
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Levels in Maslow's Need Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Self-
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actualization (highest level): | |

,Esteem needs:
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love/social/belongingness needs: |




Security needs:
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Physiological needs (lowest level):
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Self-actualization (highest level) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-desire to
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develop capabilities to the fullest, or to become everything one is
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capable of becoming
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Esteem needs: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-being respected for
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accomplishments or capabilities | |




love/social/belongingness needs - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-desire to be | | | | | | |



accepted by others
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Security needs- - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-need to produce a secure, safe
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environment

, Physiological needs (lowest level) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-basic needs:
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food & water
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Need Hierarchy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- self-actualization needs
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- esteem needs
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- love needs
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- safety needs
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- physiological needs
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Applied Implications of Maslow's Need Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Employers need to be aware of the need level in which individual
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workers are operating
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Employers need to consider such different need levels when designing
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rewards, compensation, and benefits (eg. flexible benefit plan)
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Person-as-scientist model: Vroom's VIE Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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valence
instrumentality
expectancy


Valence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Strength of pearson's preference for
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particular outcome |

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