PSY 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Opportunity Cost, Motivation, Overjustification Effect
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Incentives: a preceding event that attracts or repels one with respect to a behavior, affecting the probability of a behavior. But can have one unintended side effect an. When reward imposed in a predictable way for an intrinsically interesting activity. Along with creativity, persistence, autonomous self- regulation. A person loses a sense of autonomy. Perceived locus of causality moves to external (play now schematized as work) Motive shifts from mastery (for its own sake) to do this to get that . Use unexpected and verbal rewards (e. g. , praise for good work) they are enough. For important tasks, a person simply doesn"t seem interested in, then increase flow potential,". Use an extrinsic reward to make it seem worth pursuing (at least initially) Connected to how humans (and other organisms) learn. With a natural emphasis on the impact of situation, environment. But can also indicate how dispositional patterns are acquired. Based on experiences with situations, physical and social environments.
