PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Motivation
16 Apr 2016
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3 fundamental strategies for moivaing children: rewards, praise, and get them compeing against each other. If you want intrinsic moivaion, rewards/praise/beaing others will undermine their natural interest. We all have a response when we seek more drive, moivaion: seing a goal: a mental representaion of what we want. Can also have defensive goal: goals to avoid something. It"s natural to generate things you want to strive for. By having goals, we can provide direcion and meaning to our lives. The 3 most common ny resoluions are health related. Despite seing the same goals, people fail each year. Exercise and stop buying 4$ lates every day. 1/2 american set ny resoluions, and most fail, numerous imes. People who have a health related goal, require about 7 or 8 imes of seing before actually succeeding in the goal. The norm is to indeed fail at resoluions.
