PSYC 2230 Lecture 4: Motivation-detailed lecture FOUR notes!!!
16 Feb 2012
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Competency is important to achievement, since it shows you doing something at different levels and excelling in them. Being someone s friend you don t attack them you be friendly and get to know them so they approve you being their friend. You want to predict whether your going to achieve your goal or not. Ps + pf = 1, so the incentive is 1- pf. Example: you are buying a lottery ticket, if the lottery ticket is what you want to achieve. So the motivation is very high but the probability is very small. Your probability is very small so 1/ millions. The incentive is big because your chances are very small. So therefore it s going to be (ta= 1 x 1/millions x a big number) so the general idea is whether it s a big number or small number your chances of success.
