01:830:333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Peer Support, Motivation, Learned Helplessness

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:333
• Professor: E.Mayhew

Document Summary

Intrinsic motivation learning goals: strive to achieve because of the internal pleasure they get out of learning and mastering the material. Strive to achieve because of external rewards or punishment for performance. Achievement-related attributions: work by carol studies on dogs, view of ability affects school performance, incremental/malleable- depends on practice. Can improve by trying: attribute success to ability, failure to lack of effort, focus on learning goals. Adolescent development 22 -2: own success and failure, believes they can do it, agency, work made the grade not smartness. Multidimensional self-esteem: academic competence, athletic/physical competence, appearance, romantic appeal, moral conduct. Adolescent development 22 -3: job competence, social acceptance, close friendship. Differences in self-esteem: gender differences in self-esteem (boys > girls) More pronounced among white and puerto rican teens. Physical appearance carries weight: middle-class > lower ses. Have higher self-esteem than their less-affluent peers. Ses discrepancy grows larger over the course of adolescence. Gap gets bigger during adolescence: african-american girls > white/hispanic.