PSYC 201 Lecture 29: CHAPTER 13- November 29
20 Jan 2017
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Learning goals: define motivation and compare the behavioral, humanistic, cognitive, and social perspectives on motivation, discuss the important processes in motivation to achieve, explain how relationships and sociocultural contexts can support or undercut motivation. Recommend how to help students with achievement problems. Motivation-involved the processes that energize, direct, and sustain behavior. The behavioral perspective emphasizes external rewards and punishments as key. The humanistic perspective stresses students" capacity for personal growth, freedom to choose their own destinies, and positive qualities. Needs to be met in sequential order. Hierarchy of needs: self- actualization, self- esteem, love and belonging, safety, physiological. Their beliefs that they can effectively control their environment. Relatedness that involves establishing, maintaining and restoring warm, close, personal relationships. Taking a class and getting a good grade in order to get into a program. Are internally motivated to doing something for its own sake. Increase motivation when they are iven some personal choice.
