PSYC 471 Lecture 13: 13 PSYC 471 Feb 16th 2017

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 471
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

2nd part of the course: moving away from success and more on motivation. Pizza hut program (reading motivation program: k-6, done in schools and libraries, give free pizzas as tangible reward and praise and recognition, may seem like charity but . Introducing extrinsic rewards endangers enjoyment: rewards, praise, competition, guidelines, goals are what parents put in place law, destroying intrinsic motivation. Koestner follow up meta-analysis: (completion, participation, quality etc. ) What else undermines intrinsic motivation: threat with negative consequences, surveillance, deadlines, evaluation, goal imposition, competition. )f you go home and don"t have access or aren"t encouraged to read then you"re reading level goes down by (cid:885) months: difference of (cid:886) months after (cid:885) years that"s a whole grade level. )nterventions: summer school in new neighbourhoods din"t work: found it didn"t matter what the material was, unfortunately reading cannot be the same won"t be spontaneous, gave kids choice of free books (they chose story about brittany spears)