Question: nArch stands for
Options:
Necessary Architecture
No Achievement
Need for achievement (Correct Answer)
None of them
-Need for achievement (nAch) is a psychological concept that refers to the drive to excel, achieve, and strive for success. People with high nAch are motivated to set challenging goals for themselves and work hard to achieve them.
-Necessary Architecture and No Achievement are not commonly used terms in psychology or related fields. They don't fit the context of a personality trait related to motivation.
🔑Key Points:
• Basically, there are two types of motives:
Biological motives are also known as physiological motives as they are guided mostly by the physiological mechanisms of the body.
Psychosocial motives, on the other hand, are primarily learned from the individual’s interactions with various environmental factors.
-Social motives are mostly learned or acquired. Social groups such as family, neighborhood, friends, and relatives do contribute a lot in acquiring social motives. These are complex forms of motives mainly resulting from the individual’s interaction with her/his social environment.
-Need for achievement, also known as n-Ach, energizes and directs behavior as well as influences the perception of situations.
-During the formative years of social development, children acquire achievement motivation. The sources from which they learn it, include parents, other role models, and socio-cultural influences.
-Persons high in achievement motivation tend to prefer tasks that are moderately difficult and challenging.