Regarding Motives, Which of the Following Statements Is FALSE

question 43

Multiple Choice

Regarding motives, which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A) The behavior of outstanding artists, scientists, and educators is best understood in terms of social needs, such as the need for achievement.
• B) Success, approval, grades, and dominance are considered stimulus motives.
• C) We acquire social motives through socialization and cultural conditioning.
• D) The need for achievement differs from the need for power.

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Definitions:

Pavlovian Conditioning

The association of a response with an environmental event as the result of pairing that event (conditioned stimulus, or CS) with a biologically significant event (unconditioned stimulus, or UCS).

Operant Conditioning

When a specific response produces reinforcement and the frequency of the response determines the amount of reinforcement obtained.

Learned Helplessness

A condition in which an individual learns to feel powerless and stops trying to change or escape a negative situation due to past failures.

Seligman

Martin E.P. Seligman, a psychologist known for his work on learned helplessness and for promoting positive psychology.