Below is more information about the study
in which you just participated.
The purpose of this study was to gather
empirical data to help to validate a new psychological test
(the "AIM3" test), developed by the researchers, which is
designed to assess individual differences in motivation.
The AIM3 test is designed to identify the specific motives
that people have for doing things. That is, their
desire to achieve certain goals or objectives. For example,
if someone is motivated by affection, then we would expect
that person to seek out affection, and, when possible, to
engage in more affectionate behavior.
"Validation" of a psychological test is a
research process in which data is collected to demonstrate
that the test does correlate with other variables that,
theoretically, the test should co-vary with. For
example, if a test is designed to predict college GPA (i.e.,
the SAT test), the test should be shown empirically to do
so.
In this research, we are examining whether
a person's own self-ratings of what motivates him/her indeed
correlates with what others think motivates him/her.
If the ratings are similar by both the target person, and
the other person who knows the target person well, this will
tend to support the validity of the AIM3 test.
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