PSY426H1 Lecture Notes - Intentionality, Perceived Control, Cognitive Flexibility
Document Summary
The support of autonomy and the control of behaviour. Intentionality and personal causation: when people believe that desired outcomes will follow reliably from certain behaviours and that they are competent to execute those behaviours. Autonomy: inner endorsement of one"s actions, the sense that they emanate from oneself and are one"s own. Choice: organismic concept anchored in the sense of a fuller, more integrated functioning. Endorsed by the whole self and is experienced as action for which one is responsible. Select desired outcomes and choose how to achieve them - flexibility and the absence of pressures. Greater rigidity- even with choice, you can be pawns" to desired outcomes, even though you intend to achieve those outcomes. Controlling (deci & ryan, 1980) hypothesized that autonomy supportive events and contexts would maintain or enhance intrinsic motivagtion and that controlling events and contexts would undermine intrinsic motivation. Event: a specifiable occurrence or condition relevant to the initiation and regulation of behaviour.
