BEP 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Motivation, The Need, Prefrontal Cortex
30 Jan 2017
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Please check blackboard to see who your mentee is and when you will need to be at university place. We will discuss mentor reports on monday, 01/30. It helps us understand why we do what we do. We get motivated to meet those needs. Attribution styles are the ways we consciously or unconsciously explain the causes of our successes and failures. External: likely to blame others for our failures. Internal: likely to take responsibility for our choices/effort. For temporary attributions, we"re more likely to believe we can do something different and create a different outcome (contributes to positive motivation, persistence, and endurance) Pre-test/clickers: affect (or emotions) can _________ certain behaviors, trigger, enhance, inhibit. Ryan and deci (2000) found that we tend to be more motivated when our needs are met. Students with high overall psychological well-being tend to be more engaged and achieve at higher levels than their peers. Positive and negative emotions and powerful influences on motivation.
