PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Mindset, Motivation, Peer Pressure

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Despite the early dominance of behaviorist approaches, psychologists now recognize the intimate role that top-down processes (ex: meaning, construal, interpretation), play in determining how our motivational systems work. Illustrates different forms of motivation self-determination, not self-determined, amotivation. Rewarding a behavior increases its probability of frequency. Measured the source of people"s motivations which is influenced by outside pressures. Extrinsic (outside of an individuals) motivations (more not self-determined) External regulation: rewards, punishments, rewards (classical conditioning), authority commands (someone who has resource control over you, someone who has power over you), social pressure (peer pressure, powerful and easy to measure and manipulate. Introjected regulation: partial internalization of rewards/punishments; contingent self-esteem, ego-involvement, behaviorist way of thinking. Initial activity (learning) turns into performance -> if you do well, there is an ego-boost and if not, it decreases: can be powerful. Intrinsic regulation: doing for the sake of doing, engagement, flow, enjoyment, growth, challenge. Contrast is bigger the subjective impact is bigger and vice versa.