enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Action bias - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_bias

    Action bias also influences decision-making in the field of economics and management. In the situations where there is an economic downfall, the central banks and governments experience the pressure to take action, as they feel increased scrutiny from the public. As they are expected to fix the situation, action is seen as more appropriate than ...

  3. Need - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need

    To most psychologists, need is a psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a goal, giving purpose and direction to behavior. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. The most widely known academic model of needs was proposed by psychologist Abraham Maslow in his hierarchy of needs in 1943. His theory proposed that people have a ...

  4. Need for achievement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_achievement

    Need for achievement is a person's desire for significant accomplishment, mastery of skills, control, or high standards. The psychometric device designed to measure need-for-achievement, N-Ach , was popularized by the psychologist David McClelland .

  5. Needs assessment - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needs_assessment

    A needs assessment is a systematic process for determining and addressing needs, or "gaps", between current conditions, and desired conditions, or "wants". [1]Needs assessments can help improve policy or program decisions, individuals, education, training, organizations, communities, or products.

  6. Murray's system of needs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray's_system_of_needs

    In 1938, the American psychologist Henry Murray developed a system of needs as part of his theory of personality, which he named personology.Murray argued that everyone had a set of universal basic needs, with individual differences among these needs leading to the uniqueness of personality through varying dispositional tendencies for each need; in other words, a specific need is more ...

  7. Monroe's motivated sequence - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe's_motivated_sequence

    Monroe's motivated sequence is a technique for organizing persuasion that inspires people to take action. Alan H. Monroe developed this sequence in the mid-1930s. [1] This sequence is unique because it strategically places these strategies to arouse the audience's attention and motivate them toward a specific goal or action.

  8. Escalation of commitment - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment

    "The aggregate model's emphasis is upon the accumulation and balance of forces rather than the ordering of effects over time." [1] The model is general and can provide an ideal view as to how the effects whether positive or negative are defined by micro and macro forces. This model goes by situation rather than what researchers have defined as ...

  9. Action-specific perception - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action-specific_perception

    Action-specific perception, or perception-action, is a psychological theory that people perceive their environment and events within it in terms of their ability to act. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This theory hence suggests that a person's capability to carry out a particular task affects how they perceive the different aspects and methods involved in that task.