PSYC 3800 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Controllability, Long-Term Memory, Motivation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3800
• Professor: Jen Lasenby- Lessard

Document Summary

All students present a different motivational challenge, but teachers are expected to motivate and teach the entire class. Intrinsic: motivation associated with activities that their own reward the activity itself is satisfying and rewarding. Extrinsic: motivation created by external factors such as rewards and punishment: when we are. Some explanations of motivation rely on internal, personal factors such as needs, interests, and curiosity. Other explanations point to external, environmental factors- rewards, social pressure, punishment. The difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation is the locus of causality or the location (external or internal) of the cause of behavior. Our activities may be caused by some intrinsic reasons, ad some extrinsic reasons at the same time. It can be hard to motivate children completely intrinsically. In the cognitive perspective, people are active and curious, in search of information to solve personally relevant problems. People are motivated to learn the values of pratices of the community to maintain their identity as community members.