HPED 2510 Lecture 19: Motivation

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: Health and Physical Education
• Course: HPED 2510
• Professor: Shawn G.Sky

Document Summary

Motivation: motivation is the direction and intensity of effort, personality, social variables, and thoughts influence ability to achieve evaluated task, behavioural investment. Factors affecting motivation: personality (internal, motivational orientations, attributions of success and failure, situation (external, motivational climate, rewards, punishments. Achievement motivation theories: need achievement theory, attribution theory, achievement goal theory, competence motivation theory. Need achievement theory: see slide 8 on motivation notes. External to athlete: attributions are reasons to explain success and failures, ex. Didn"t hit the gym because partner couldn"t make it: ex. Uncontrollable: stability of attributions stable over time vs. Constantly changing: effect of attributions see table 3. 1 p. 64. Task orientation: task orientation internal comparison, outcome orientation focused on social/external comparison, 3 motivational styles, performance-oriented, success-oriented, failure-oriented. Individual motivational orientation plays a huge role in performance: each orientation is influenced by perceived ability and how it is measured.