PSYC100 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Motivation, Walter Mischel, Developmental Psychology

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC100
• Professor: Ly Agnes

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Motivation is energizing: getting up & saying you are going to do something. Directing/ guiding: changing behaviors toward the goals. Persistence: keep doing the behavior and overcoming obstacles. Extrinsic motivation can take away natural desire and undermine intrinsic motivation. Self-determination theory: motivated for a need of competence and autonomy. Self-perception theory: unaware of our motives, we look whether to reason or not. Inside: motivation to do something because you like to do it. Motivation to do something because of some external reward (i. e. money, toys) How did the dan gilbert ted talk (about heuristics) relate to motivation and emotion. Offering extrinsic reward causes intrinsic reward to go down. This psychological principle dictates that performance on challenging tasks increases with arousal up to a moderate point. Students perform best on exams when feeling moderate anxiety. Too little anxiety can make them inattentive or unmotivated, while too much anxiety can interfere with their thinking ability.