PSYC 4750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Reall, Maurice Challe, Aust
12 Dec 2015
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Interest is the emotion that signals that one"s inner psychological needs have been involved by the activity at hand. They promote a proactive willingness to seek out and engage in an environment that we expect will be able to nurture our psychological needs. Because psychological needs motivate exploration and challenge-seeking, they are understood as growth (rather than as deficit) needs. Autonomy, competence and relatedness are organismic psychological needs o. Organisms needs to grow, they need to learn new information, develop new skills, be open. Organismic- an entity that is alive and in active exchange with its environment to new interests and discover new and more effective ways of adjusting. The opposite of an organismic approach is a mechanistic one. In mechanistic theories, the environment acts on the person and the person reacts. For instance, environments produce heat, and the person responds in a predictable and automatic way by sweating.
