EDUC 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Classical Conditioning, Motivation, Behaviorism
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What is motivation: to a behaviorist (ex. Skinner): motivation is something that comes from the outside, happens after our behavior, and increases the likelihood of the behavior happening again, to a social learning theorist (ex. Bandura): motivation may happen directly, but it also may happen indirectly through vicarious reinforcement and punishment, to a cognitivist (ex. Information processing theory): motivation may be what draws our attention, to an individual constructivist (ex. Piaget): motivation is driven by diequilibrium and that sense of being off-balance and wanting to be in balance, to a social constructivist (ex. Who controls the motivation: external motivation, comes from the outside, behaviorists, social cognitive theorists, different ways that our environment is motivating to us (e. g. , punish or reinforce) Internal motivation: comes from within ourselves, activity becomes an end itself. I want to learn for the sake of learning: desire to master something.
