PSYC 334 Midterm: Test 2 LA Questions
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Motivation involves the energy that the individual applies to work, internal forces that affect a person"s voluntary choices of behaviour. Arousal is needed in the motivation process, or else you are amotivated. Social learning theory states that people observe others to learn, and there are four mental processes that facilitate social learning. Motivation is one of these processes, where the learner must have some reason to perform the modelled actions. Self-fulfilling prophecy is when a person unknowingly causes a prediction to come true, due to the simple fact that they expect it to come true. In other words, and expectation about a subject, such as a person or event, can effect our behaviour towards that subject, which causes the expectation to be realized. In relation to training, a supervisor could form an expectation about the work of an employee. From these expectations, the supervisor"s behaviour could be affected, which in turn would affect the employee.
