Motivation and Perceptual Selectivity Using Need for Achievement and Hostile Press Measures.
Abstract
Male students from an introductory psychology course were employed as subjects in an experiment to investigate the perceptual accuracy of subjects classified by a pattern of interactions between three levels of need for achievement and three levels of hostile press. The experiment was presented after a detailed critique of design problems inherent in previous research investigating a motivation-perception relationship. Data were obtained by assaying responses to tachistoscopic presentations of word-stimuli relating to various aspects of the achievement situation or neutral words and were corrected for response tendencies by means of a measure obtained by presentations of typewritten hash-marks. Perceptual selectivity to specific word types was found to be specific to certain motive-measure groups. Implications of the findings were considered for the purpose of future design in experiments utilizing these motive measures. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 14, 1970
- Accession Number
- AD0713855
Entities
People
- F. Stephen Brenner
- Richard C. Teevan
Organizations
- State University of New York