Look at the picture below for 60 seconds. Now take 15 to 20 minutes to write a story about what you see happening in the picture. Your story should address the following issues:

1. Who are the people in the picture? What is their relationship?

2. What is currently taking place in the picture? What are the people doing?

3. What took place in the hour preceding the picture?

4. What will take place in the hour following the picture?




READ THIS SECTION ONLY AFTER THE ABOVE EXERCISE............

This exercise is based on a tool, the Thematic Apperception Test, used by his associates to assess people's needs for achievement, affiliation, and po mine where you fallon these three needs, do the following:

1.    Give yourself one point for need for achievement every time one of the following themes shows up in the story: ·    Your story involves a work or competitive situation. ·    Feedback is being given or received. ·    Goals or standards are being discussed. ·    Someone is taking responsibility for his or her work. ·    Someone is expressing pride in his or her own accomplishment of another person. 2.     Give yourself one point for need for affiliation every time one of the following themes shows up in the story: ·    The relationship between the characters is personal. ·    Help is being given or received. ·    Encouragement, comfort, empathy, or affection is being give received. ·    Someone expresses a desire to be close to the other person ·    The characters are engaged in or talking about social activities 3.    Give yourself one point for need for power every time one of the :::; themes shows up in the story: ·    The relationship between the characters is hierarchical. Someone has more status than the others. ·    Someone is trying to get someone else to do something. ·    Someone is attempting to get others to work together. ·    Someone is concerned about reaching organizational goals. ·    Someone is evoking rules, policies, or regulations.

Add up your points for each of the needs, and answer the following q ,

1.    What is your dominant need? That is, in which category did you ha most points? What does this suggest about you? 2.    Does this assessment seem valid to you? Why or why not? 3.    If you are not as high on need for achievement as you thought yolo be, what can you do to increase it? Sources: D.C. McClelland et aI., "A Scoring Manual for the Achievement Motive," in J. ed., Motives in Fantasy, Action and Society (New York: Van Nostrand, 1958); CD. Morg Murray, "A Method for Investigating Fantasies: The Thematic Apperception Test," Arch rology and Psychiatry 34 (1935): 289-306.

NOW DO THE EXERCISE WITH THE PHOTOGRAPH BELOW. WRITE A STORY AND INTERPRET BASED ON THE ABOVE INTERPRETATION. DO YOU FIND ANY DIFFERENCE IN YOUR ASSESSMENT ABOUT YOUR SELF?

PICTURE CREDITs: 
http://haacked.com/archive/2007/11/13/groupthink-vs-market-think.aspx
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