EDUCATION UGC NET
MOTIVATION AND EMOTION
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Question
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Imprinting
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Critical period
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Interpersonal relationships
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Coolidge Effect
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Fritz Heider (b. 1896–d. 1988) was an Austrian-American Gestalt and social psychologist. He is considered one of the founding fathers of interpersonal social psychology, contributing in particular his theories of attribution, balance, and motivation.
Detailed explanation-2: -The study of attributions began in the field of social psychology. Fritz Heider, the “father” of attribution theory, first proposed that people are naive scientists who try to work out the causes of outcomes for themselves and other people (Heider 1958).
Detailed explanation-3: -Kurt Lewin was an early leader of group dynamic research and is regarded by many as the founder of modern social psychology.
Detailed explanation-4: -Attribution theory assumes that people try to determine why people do what they do, i.e., attribute causes to behavior. A person seeking to understand why another person did something may attribute one or more causes to that behavior.