PSYCH-101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Motivation, Preschool, Psych
27 Oct 2020
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Being paid (external reward) for working on an intrinsically interesting activity can decrease a person"s intrinsic motivation for the activity: deci (1971, 1972) soma puzzles. Chose people who loved to solve puzzles in their free time. Given puzzles to solve, offered money for each puzzle solved. Interest went down, number of puzzles completed went down: lepper and greene (1975) nursery school. Chose kids who chose to do the drawing centre. Kids offered a treat for every time they chose the drawing centre. Initially, kids went to the drawing table and drew. Then they went and didn"t draw: additive principle (siedentop,1975) Gentleman didn"t want kids playing in his yard; didn"t want to put up a fence. Man said i really enjoy watching you play in my yard, i"ll give you a quarter each time you come . After a week, gave dimes, then nickels, then nothing.
