ALHT106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Motivation, Reduced Affect Display, Boost Juice
ALHT week 4 face to face lecture Motivation
What are the Perspectives of Motivation?
- Psychologists don’t believe that there is one way to study or describe how people
think or behave
- Throughout time, there have been “schools of thought” that have evolved
throughout the development of psychology (ie. One psychologist might attribute
certain behaviour to biological factors, whilst another may attribute early childhood
experiences to explain behaviour)
- These schools of thought are named perspectives
Motivation
- Motivation is the driving force behind behaviour that leads us to pursue some things
and avoid others
- Motivation has two components: what people want to do and how strongly they
want to do it
- Motives can be divided into biological needs and psychosocial needs
oBiological needs: air, food, shelter, drink, warmth, sex, sleep
oPsychosocial needs: dominance, power, achievement, and relatedness to
others
What are the factors that influence how strongly you want to complete your university
degree?
- Psychodynamic perspective:
oDrives what are the forces within you that form you drive to complete this
degree? How does it shape your life plan?
oOur feelings, motives and decisions are actually powerfully influenced by our
past experienced which are stored in our unconscious
- Behaviourist perspective:
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oConditioning are you motivated by receiving high grades? Have high grades
been reinforced behaviour at high school? Eg: praise, awards negative
reinforcement eg: parents disappointed, teacher disappointed, phone taken
away
oOur motivation can come from conditioned responses in our past.
Reinforcement can drive motivation and shape behaviour
- Humanistic perspective:
oHierarchical needs perhaps you are here to fulfil needs inherent to you?
Ticking off Mazlo’s pyramid always working towards self-
actualisation but no one really reaches it
oOnce the basic biological needs are fulfilled then one’s behaviour will be
aligned with striving towards fulfilling safety needs
- Cognitive perspective:
oGoal setting did you set a goal of completing a university degree, or
becoming a physio?
oHuman behaviour is a product of study and active process in the brain
(central processing unit) and subsequent interpretation and output of
information received
oSelf-determination Theory perhaps you’re self-determined to fulfil 3 basic
physiological needs
The more our needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness are
satisfied by an activity, the higher quality of motivation we will have
for that activity
- Evolutionary perspective
oSurvival status perhaps you are here to defend your social standing
oEvery species can be expected to psychologically embody a unique set of
interests and biases that are related to how they survive
Goal setting theory
- One cognitive theory of motivation is the Goal Setting Theory
- There are three factors that affect an individual’s probability of success in achieving
an outcome
- These are:
1. The time set for the attainment of a goal
2. The degree of complexity or difficulty of the goal
3. The specificity of the goal
Expectancy-Value Theory
- Motivation of people and their probability of success in attaining their goals largely
depend on their expectation of success multiplied by the value they place on success
Types of motivation self-determination theory leads into this
- Intrinsic motivation
oThe motivation to perform a behaviour for its own sake, rather than for some
kind external (or extrinsic) reward internal gratefulness for what they’re
doing and they’re enjoying that
oGenerally meaning that someone is motivated to do something as they like
what they are doing
oWhen you are trying to motivate someone, you are trying to tap into their
intrinsic motivation
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Document Summary
Alht week 4 face to face lecture motivation. Psychologists don"t believe that there is one way to study or describe how people think or behave. Throughout time, there have been schools of thought that have evolved throughout the development of psychology (ie. one psychologist might attribute certain behaviour to biological factors, whilst another may attribute early childhood experiences to explain behaviour) Motivation is the driving force behind behaviour that leads us to pursue some things and avoid others. Motivation has two components: what people want to do and how strongly they want to do it. Motives can be divided into biological needs and psychosocial needs: biological needs: air, food, shelter, drink, warmth, sex, sleep, psychosocial needs: dominance, power, achievement, and relatedness to others. How does it shape your life plan: our feelings, motives and decisions are actually powerfully influenced by our past experienced which are stored in our unconscious.
