PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Abraham Maslow, Tiger Woods, Motivation

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1002
• Professor: Bruce Tsuji

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E(cid:373)otio(cid:374: what motivated terry fox, nelson mandela, tiger woods, can be motivated to do something positive or negative, motives needs, wants, desires leading to goal directed behaviour, motives generally fall into 2 categories: biological and social. Incentive pulls us while drive pushes us: drives internal tension that pushes us to reduce that tension to achieve homeostasis, biological motives: hunger, thirst, sex, sleep, etc, social motives: achievement, affiliation, autonomy (independence), dominance, etc. Intrinsic motivation internal factors such as self-determination, curiosity, challenge, effort. Provided by you: extrinsic motivation incentives such as rewards, punishments. Provided by others: ex. someone pays you to work or punishes you when you speed, many things we do in life are from a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic motivators, adding extrinsic reward (money, prize) undermines intrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation results in greater achievement than extrinsic motivation alone: the reward can make intrinsic motivation decline, ex.