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Chapter 6 Flashcards

1
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Human motivation is driven by…

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basic psychological needs. contouring conscious and unconscious life goals.

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What motivates the agent?

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  • Theory of mind: wanting and believing
  • seeking pleasure and avoiding pain
  • psychological mechanisms to feed: hunger thirst and sex (clark hall, Kenneth space)
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Freud’s theory on human motivation

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There are unconscious desire that needs to be fed, if uncontrolled the individual has a disorder. Sex- eros, aggression - thanatos

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Carl Jung theory on human motivation

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people are motivated by individualization

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individualization

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the needs to develop and actualize oneself. Become authentic and the person we were designed to be

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Henry Murray human motivation theory

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list of 20 psychological needs: Achievement, Affiliation, Dominance, Nurturance, Order, Play, Avoiding harmful situations

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Humanistic psychology

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  • Human beings strive to fulfil deep and ennobling motives for self-actualization, spiritual completion, personal salvation
  • Become who we are by discovering and making manifest our good inner potential
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David Buss theory on human motivation (multiplicity in human motivation)

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  • Fundamental problems human beings have evolved to solve
  • evolved to organize and plan
  • if there was no belief in out motivation, agency would not exist
  • eg. mate selection, child-rearing, mate attraction, procreation,
    forming alliances sin social groups, defending ourselves from attack, finding food, obtaining shelter
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Intrinsic motivation

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do things we like to do and enjoy experiences

  • eg. author liked play ice hockey until he was freezing
  • high happiness and well-being
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extrinsic motivation

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  • as eusocial species, humans are also motivated by external factors such as social rewards, money, promotion
  • too much of it - unsatisfaction
  • controlled/amotivated
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Self-determination theory created by…

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Edward Deci and Richard Ryan

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To achieve and stay motivated we must…

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organize and plan

- brain power and interpersonal cooperation

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self determination theory

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Self-determination theory suggests that people are motivated to grow and change by three innate and universal psychological needs.

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motivated by 3 factors

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  1. autonomy
  2. competence
  3. relatedness
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  1. Autonomy
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  • independence from external pressures, individualization, satisfaction to intrinsic motivations and deep values
  • basic motivator of agency
  • motivation to strive
  • Limits of autonomy promotes motivated agent to fulfill the
    ideal combination of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation: A social environment that promotes autonomy and channels motivation into socially constructed ends
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Important dimension of social environment (autonomy)

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  • autonomy support (teachers/parents - high autonomic parents improve well being in kids)
  • structure (goal directed striving; too much of it = extrinsic motivation)
  • interpersonal involvement (Social envt’s provide high levels of autonomy
    support, moderate, and many highly involved
    socializing forces)
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  1. Competence
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control outcomes of events and exprience mastery of dealing with external environment

18
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  1. relatedness
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intimacy and caring for others, feeling love and sense of belonging

19
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Doing what one wants without coercion or compulsion leads to…

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  • high levels of self-esteem and psychological well-being

- growing sense of change in positive direction

20
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when deprived of autonomy, competence, relatedness…

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individual struggles to meet basic needs and finds ways to compensate for loss

21
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controlled/amotivated behaviour

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  • meet demands of external factor or once external now internal factors
  • individual feels they are doing it intentionally but the behaviors are unintentional and disorganized
22
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Robert White

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effectance

23
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effectance

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the drive to be an effective agent in any environment

- some behaviors arent related to drives, they motivated by mastering the environment

24
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Competence (again)

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using all sources, master physical and material in a social environment and getting ahead
- individual differences in strength of motives which is downplayed by the theory of self-determination

25
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competence is basically…

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achievement motive

26
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Henry Murray

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personality theory on individuals needs

- each need orients a person to the future by generating personal goals aimed at satisfying the need

27
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Issue with Henry Murray personality theory…

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personal needs may reflect desired but he believed not everyone’s desires are conscious

28
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Solution to the issue of Murrays Personality theory…

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Thematic Apperception test

29
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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

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people tell imaginative stories in response to picture cues, people project desires and concerns into pics

30
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when do consistent differences for nAch appear?

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8/9 years

31
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picture story exercise

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  • Coding system developed to determine the relative strength of achievement themes in imaginative stories
  • High density achievement themed, are high on achievement motivation
32
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people high on nACH are…

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hardworking, exhibit high performance in tasks, go above max, and have high self-control, especially when receiving immediate feedback concerning success/failure
- business career

33
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Motives are learned (Murray and McClelland)

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when children get rewarded for tasks, develop high achievement motivation

34
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Children’s books emphasizing meeting standard of excellence promotes…

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…the development of higher achievement motivation

35
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Strong correlation between the salience of achievement themes in society textbooks and…

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economic output of that society in a generation or 2 later

36
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Whats the engine for economic growth when children grow up, years later?

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Strong emphasis on meeting standard of excellence as conveyed in children’s books promotes development of higher achievement motivation

37
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achievement motivation changes as…

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societal values change

38
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power motivation

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high social dominance, motivation to lead, influence and feel strong
- associated with negative (aggression) and positive (helping others) behavior

39
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careers in nPow

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teacher, CEO, therapist

40
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When in low-status situation…

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increase in cortisol (stress hormone) and decrease in testosterone

41
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high susceptibility to illness when…

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high nPow feel dominated or overpowered

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