PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Motivation, Operant Conditioning, Psych
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Something we want to do, means something to us, effort. School work, vocational work, social life, sports. Purposefully making a decision to try, motivated to do well. We pay attention the potential rewards that we can get out of doing a behavior and potential costs that can occur out of trying a behavior. A). more rewards there are relative to amount of costs more motivated to try that behavior. B). we also pay attention to the probability of being able to. We pay attention to not just absolute value of rewards vs costs but also likelihood of. Tries to manipulate absolute value and probability reaching rewards and costs. If probability is very low, less incentive to act out that behavior and reach that reward. value of potential reward vs costs in whether people try out certain behaviors, how it effects their motivation. Intrinsic internal pleasure, internally rewarding to you bc you like it, something about within you.
