PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Operant Conditioning, Observational Learning, Motivation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Amy Gayman

Document Summary

Common myths about motivation and behavioural change motivation is a trait. You are either a motivated individual or you are not. Competence is the main motivator for engaging in physical activity. Enjoyment is the best motive to help us understand physical activity behaviour. Motivation: the internal processes, such as your needs, thoughts and emotions, that give your behaviour energy and direction. Direction: gives motivated behaviour purpose and directs us to the achievement (or avoidance) or a specific goal. Motivation is simply the reasons you do the things you do. An approach to understanding motivated behaviour that focused on conditioning, or learning form the environment founders watson and skinner believed that learning from the environment (not personality or free will) determined people"s actions. Operant conditioning: associates behaviours with consequences that are learned through reinforcement or punishment. Assumes changes in others are valued by us. Operant strategies are important for developing and maintaining skills. Self monitoring includes recording own behaviours: cognitive approaches.