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Competence (6) Flashcards

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Competence

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basic desire for ability, success, and a sense of effectiveness

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Core motives should elicit goal-oriented bahavior

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the need for competence serves an evolutionary role in encouraging humans to learn, develop and adapt to their environment

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Core motives should be adaptive and beneficial

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Feeling competent is linked to many positive benefits

  1. improved physicial health
  2. better mental health
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Core motives should be universal

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Competence is an equality valued in both Western and Easter cultures

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People differ in their expression and fulfillment of the competence need

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  1. Belief about where competencies come from (entity vs incremental beliefs)
  2. Perception of competency level (self-efficacy)
  3. Achievement motivation (individual differences in motivation)
  4. Types of goal (learning vs performance goals)
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entity vs. incremental beliefs

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Some people think their competencies are something they were born with whereas others think their competencies are something they had to work to achieve

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individual differences in motivation

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Some people are just more driven to fulfill their competence need than others

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Learning vs. Performance goals

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Some people adopt the goal to improve their competence whereas others adopt the goal to prove their competence

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Entity theorist

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Traits and abilities are fixed and are determined by stable factors like aptitude or genetics (intelligence is not changeable)

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Incremental theorist

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Traits and abilities are determined by more malleable factors like effort and persistence (intelligence is changeable)

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Incremental (growth) mindset

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a. Embrace challenges
b. Persist in the face of setbacks
c. See effort as the path to mastery
d. Adopt learning goals

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Entity, fixed mindset

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a. Avoid challenges
b. Give up easily
c. See the effort as fruitless or worse
d. Adopt performance goals

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Self-efficacy

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  1. Self-efficacy refers to the perception or belief about our ability to accomplish a particular task
  2. The greater our self-efficacy, the more we believe we have the skills necessary to successfully accomplish something.
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Forming attribution regarding (Self-efficacy)

-> Success

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a. Internal attributions increase feelings of pride and accomplishment
b. and stable attributions increase hope that good performances will occur again

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Forming attribustions regarding (self-efficacy)

-> Failure

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a. Internal attributions increase feelings of guilt and shame
b. and stable attributions decrease hope

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Flow state

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a subjective state in which people feel completely absorbed and focused on an activity

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Factors that determine flow

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  1. Skill level

2. Challenge level

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Self-concept

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an individual’s collection of self-knowledge

-> serves as a mor source of motivation

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Goal Fusion

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The extent that a goal is perceived to be integrated into a person’s self-concept

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Self-Esteem

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refers to how favorably or unfavorably people evaluate them-selves
-> It is a major motivator of human behavior

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Self-evalutaion

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Whenever people attempt to judge aspects of their self-concept, including their competencies and abilities, they are engaging in self-evaluation

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Social comparison theory (leon Festinger)

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Often only know who we are and what we are capable of by comparing ourselves to others

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Motives to evaluate own competencies

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  1. Self- Assesment
  2. Self-Verification
  3. Self-Enhancement
  4. Self-Improvement
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Self-assesment

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identifying how competent we really are and reducing uncertainty about our skill level

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Behavioral consequences of Self-assesment

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Preference for disgnostic tasks (provide accurate info and reduce unercertainty about one’s ability level)

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Self-Verification

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The motivation to maintain consistency between self-conceptions and new information

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Behavioral consequences of Self-Verification

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  1. people seek out info that verfies their self-view

2. People seek out the company of others who verify their self-view

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Symbolic Self-completion theory

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We present ourselves to others in ways that encourage them to treat us in a way that is consistent with our self-views
(Self-verification)

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Self-enhacement

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Self-enhancement refers to the motivation to enhance the positive aspects and decrease the negative aspects of our self-concept

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Behavioral consequences of Self-enhancement

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  1. Positive feedback
  2. Positive illusions (The better-than-average effect)
  3. Downward social comparison
  4. Self-affirmation theory
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Self-improvement

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Self-improvement refers to the motivation to improve one’s traits, abilities, and well-being

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Self inprovement vs Self-enhancement

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  1. Self enhacement: feeling like competent
  2. Self-improvement: becoming more competent (first step is to recognize that you are not as good as you want to be -> contradicting self-enhacement)
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Upward social comparison (Self-improvement)

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we are inspired to become more competent in a domain and we gain insights into the steps necessary to improve our skills

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Self-defense strategies

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allow us to externalize information when it threatens our sense of competency

  1. Self-serving attribution
  2. Self-handicapping
  3. Excuse making
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Self-serving attributional bias

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Maintaining overly positive self-evaluations in the face of contradictory evidence through the strategic use of internal and external attributions

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Self-handicapping

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The tendency to create an external obstacle that blocks one’s own performance

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Exuse making

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Excuse making reflects an attempt to shift attributions for a negative outcome from internal causes to external causes

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Costs of Self-handicapping

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  1. people who self-handicap put far less effort, time and practice into preparing a task
  2. they are also evaluated more negatively by others
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Excuse making vs. Self-handicapping

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  • > both strategies involve attribution failure to a external source to avoid personal blame
  • > self-handicapping is a behvaioral strategy (before the impeding failure)
  • > excuse making is a cognitive strategy (after the failure)
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Self-improvement vs. Self-enahcement

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  • > both are concerned with seeking positive self-views
  • > self- enhacement (feeling competent)
  • > self-improvent (becoming actually more competent) -> here we have to recognize first that we are not as good as we want to be

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