PSYC 3405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Quasi, High Standard Manufacturing Company, Trait Theory
6 Mar 2014
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: motivation generated by an innate, internal need. : motivation generated by incentives and consequences of external events. Inherent desire to engage one"s interest and to exercise and develop one"s capacities: satisfies psychological needs e. g. autonomy, competence, relatedness. Going beyond just memorizing the material: optimal functioning and well-being greater self actualization, subjective vitality, less anxiety and depression, greater self-esteem. External regulation of motivation: incentives, consequences, and rewards. Environmentally created reason (ex: incentives or consequences) Incentives expectations, happen before event: consequences happen after. What"s in it for me type of motivation. Incentives: environmental events that attract or repel a person toward or away from initiating a particular course of action. Consequences: positive reinforcers vs. negative reinforcers. Negative reinforcer: take away negative consequence: punishers. Negative: taking away something pleasant: everything we do depends on if we are reinforced or punished. If rewarded, praised, etc. will continue to do behavior. If punished, will be less likely to be motivated to do that behavior.
