Describe McClelland's program to raise achievement motivation among business people. What evidence exists for this program's effectiveness?
What will be an ideal response?
The program first teaches participants about the concept of achievement motivation. It then teaches people how to score TAT protocols and to think in terms of achievement imagery as often as possible. Finally, it encourages people to think about linking achievement imagery to specific patterns of action.
At follow-up, the people who had participated in the program were more successful in terms of starting new business ventures and employing more people.
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A. commitment B. integration C. acceptance D. confusion
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a. about 90% of them came to the United States from Afghanistan and Iraq. b. teenage girls in the United States were arrested and interrogated for several weeks, following the September 11, 2001 bombing. c. almost all of these adolescents retain their Muslim identity, and they do not feel that they have any American identity. d. almost all of these adolescents emphasize their American identity, and they do not feel that they retain any Muslim identity.
Correlation coefficients vary from
a. 0.0 to 1.0. b. -1.0 to 0.0. c. -1.0 to 1.0 d. -10.0 to 10.0
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of creative persons?
a. prefer complexity and enjoy symbolic thoughts, ideas, concepts, and possibilities b. tend to be overly dependent on others c. tend to use broad categories and find order in chaos d. experience more unusual states of consciousness, such as vivid dreams and mystical experiences