AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -This identified the basic needs that human beings have, in order of their importance: physiological needs, safety needs, and the needs for belonging, self-esteem and “self-actualization".

Detailed explanation-2: -The need for achievement, power, and affiliation are three primary types of motives or motivational drives that influence a broad spectrum of behavior, from how one interacts on an interpersonal level to one’s choice of and/or success in an occupation.

Detailed explanation-3: -McClelland’s Theory of Three Needs outlines the three desires that an individual could possibly have. Each person is motivated by power, affiliation, or achievement. One trait is usually more dominant, but the others are present in an individual as well.

Detailed explanation-4: -McClelland defines the need for power (nPow) as a desire for “power either to control other people (for [one’s] own goals) or to achieve higher goals (for the greater good), ” and describes people high in this trait as seeking “neither recognition nor approval from others-only agreement and compliance."[1].