Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Motivation, Ultimate Human, Reinforcement

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Process that influences: direction, persistence, vigour. Performing an activity to obtain an external reward or to avoid punishment: intrinsic motivation. Performing an activity for its own sake. Incentives stimuli that (cid:498)pull(cid:499) organism toward goal (cid:523)i. e. good grades, food(cid:524) Expectancy x value theory: behaviour is determined by, strength of expectation that behaviour will lead to a goal, incentive value that person places on goal, motivation= expectancy x incentive value. Strength of expectation that behaviour will lead to a goal. Motivation= expectancy x incentive value getting an a and he values getting an a in calculus class. James believes that the more you study, the greater the probability of. Lenora believes that the more she studies the more likely she is to get an a but she doesn(cid:495)t place a high value on getting an a in this class. Harrison believes that the testes are very difficult and that studying hard is unlikely to produce and a so why bother.

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