By. U.S. psychologist Henry Alexander Murray defined psychogenic need as concerned with emotional satisfaction in opposition to biological satisfaction. Such psychogenic needs include
the affiliative, dominance and seclusion
. PSYCHOGENIC NEED: “The need to be alone is a psychogenic need as defined by Murray.”
What is the difference between biogenic needs and psychogenic needs?
Biogenic needs indicate that people are born with a need for certain elements necessary to maintain life (e.g. food, water, shelter). Contrary to this, psychogenic needs
are acquired in the process of becoming a member of a culture
(e.g.status, power, affiliation).
What is Murray’s list of psychogenic needs?
The EPPS measures 15 motives, most of them being derived from Murray’s list of psychogenic needs, for example,
Achievement, Order, Exhibition, Autonomy, Affiliation, Succorance, Dominance, Abasement, Nurturance, and Aggression
.
What is psychogenic motivation?
Some psychogenic motives are:
(1) Exploration, (2) curiosity, (3)
need for sensory stimulation
, (4) manipulation, (5) contact-comfort or affection motive, (6) competence, (7) fear and (8) self- actualisation. We shall explain these motives in brief.
How many psychogenic needs are there?
The following is a partial list of
24 needs
identified by Murray and his colleagues. According to Murray, all people have these needs, but each individual tends to have a certain level of each need. 1 Each person’s unique levels of needs play a role in shaping their individual personality.
What is a psychogenic disorder?
Psychogenic movement disorders are characterized
by unwanted movements
, such as spasms, shaking or jerks involving any part of the face, neck, trunk or limbs. In addition some patients may have bizarre gait or difficulties with their balance that are caused by underlying stress or some psychological condition.
WHO identified a set of 20 psychogenic needs?
Henry Murray
(1938) developed psychogenic needs theory between years 1893-1988 for understanding human psychology (refer Figure 1). The theory consisted of three dimensions – one: need for power (nPow), two: need for affiliation (nAff) and three: need for achievement (nAch).
What are the two types of human needs?
- Physiological Needs: Physiological needs (e.g. food, shelter, clothing, water, air, sleep etc.) …
- Safety Needs: …
- Social Needs: …
- Esteem Needs: …
- Self-Actualization Needs:
What are needs and presses?
In his theory, Murray argues that needs and presses (another component of the theory)
acted together to create an internal state of disequilibrium
; the individual is then driven to engage in some sort of behavior to reduce the tension.
What four needs did Murray propose that we all have?
After analyzing these data, they found that the most important needs (e.g.,
need for achievement, need for affiliation, need for power, need for order, and need for play
) proposed by Murray and colleagues are still important.
What are acquired needs?
What is Acquired Needs Theory? Acquired needs theory, also known as McClelland’s Needs Theory, Three-Needs theory, or Learned Needs theory, is a theory that
is based on the notion that people’s needs are acquired as they live their lives or through experiences of life
.
What are needs in tat?
Needs. Murray described needs as a “
potentiality or readiness to respond in a certain way under certain given circumstances
…. It is a noun which stands for the fact that a certain trend is apt to recur” ” (1938).
Which needs are primary needs?
A traditional list of immediate “basic needs” is
food (including water), shelter and clothing
. Many modern lists emphasize the minimum level of consumption of “basic needs” of not just food, water, clothing and shelter, but also sanitation, education, and healthcare.
What are general motives?
A general motive is unlearned but not physiologically based. General motives are
more important to organisation behaviour
than primary motives. Robert White maintains the view that all organisms have a capacity to interact effectively with the environment. This common capacity is termed competence.
What is physiological motive?
a
motive resulting from a basic physiological need
, such as the need for food.
What is Personology?
Personology is a trend within personality psychology created by Henry A. Murray in the 1930s. It is an
idiographic approach to personality
, focusing on the interaction between psychological needs and presses coming from the individual’s environment.
