PEDS303 Lecture Notes - Achievement Orientation, Social Comparison Theory, Motivation
28 Apr 2013
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Oct 15 motivation continued: we as human beings want to feel competent at what we do. If there is no feel of success, that is highly demotivating: autonomy some sense of choice or self direction of what we do. Focus primarily upon individual characteristics: we aren"t concerned with environment, we are interested in studying motivation by looking at the person. Set in the context of achievement goal theory was developed by john nichols who was an educational psychologist. Ego orientation: perceived competence/success based on achieving favourable normative social comparison, people who are highly ego oriented judge success based on how they compare to others in the same environment. Someone with a high ego orientation doesn"t care if they are improving, but if they defeat the opponent, they view it as successful. So in other words, you cant be both task and ego oriented: however, you can be highly ego and highly task oriented, ex.
