PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Behaviorism, Droopy, Operant Conditioning
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Despite the early dominance of behaviorist approaches, psychologists now recognize the intimate role that top-down processes (i. e. , meaning, construal, interpretation), play in determining how our motivational systems function. The continuum of motivation (the source of one"s motivation) Not all ways of motivation are effective. Ryan d. c. added that you can take the same person with the same willpower and get them to think about their goal differently and suddenly their intrinsic thinking/will power starts working a lot better. Example: want to do well in school. External regulation: rewards, punishments, authority command, social pressure, etc the situation that is pushing the person to be motivated operant conditioning. Introjected regulation: partial internalization of reward/punishment; contingent self-esteem, ego-involvement. At elementary school, students start getting gold stars and/or a+ and then when you get home your parent"s responses are different are dependent on what your grades are.
