PSY-33 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Blood Sugar, Introjection, Motivation
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Connections between self-determination theory and other theories in personality. Those w internal locus of control believe they can influence what happens to them through their own efforts, behavior, or characteristics. Those w external locus of control believe what happens to them is due to chance, luck, fate, or other people. Locus of control: describes the connection between behavior and outcomes. Locus of causality: the connection between choice and behavior (autonomy) Self-efficacy: the belief that one can be competent and effect at some activity. Efficacy expectation more important than outcome expectation. Develop our self-efficacy beliefs from 4 sources of info: personal experience, watching another person enact the behavior and success or fail then trying it ourselves, social persuasion, physical and emotional states. Path analysis: used to test how variables affect each other. Path diagram: visually shows the significant effects of the variables on each other.
