PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Tony Robbins, Confirmation Bias, Intelligence Quotient
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Motivation in social psych jargon: the systematic influence of our desires, goals, and feelings on our cognition and behavior. how we want influence how we think. Two way, our cognition also influence our motivation. Iq test, did poorly, most likely to disparage the test, even disparage the whole idea about measuring the intelligence. If you score high in the test, unlikely to against the test. People are highly motivated to protect their self-esteem- if receive something that threat our self-esteem we try to neutralize that. Result: disparage with those who failed in the test. (motivation is not: tony robbins) Although there may be an intuitive motivational explanation for many phenomena, there is often a competing cognitive explanation that does not involve any motivation. Often a cognitive explanation is based on expectancies. Would mr. spock reach the same conclusion: how does motivation influence. Our behavior mediated by our cognition: by systematically influencing. Motivation cognition behavior: motivated memory search.