Exam 2 Flashcards
What are the 3 universal psychological needs according to the basic psychological needs theory?
Relatedness: meaningful relationships, sense of belonging
Competence: feeling capable, mastery, effective in actions
Autonomy: in control of behavior, choices, ownership
What are the aspects of Iso-Ahola’s Model of Leisure Behavior?
escaping personal environments
escaping interpersonal environments
seeking personal rewards
seeking interpersonal rewards
What is perceived freedom?
perceiving one’s actions as voluntary
What are the two types of control?
Primary: directly influencing one’s world
Secondary: maintaining control by accepting or adjusting to situation
Langer and Rodin’s control study?
old people, one group responsible for taking care of self and room, other group nurses did
30% of residents in second group died 18 months later compared to 15% in 1st group
What is learned helplessness?
learning that your action do not impact the world around you
what is the psychological reactance theory
threat to perceived freedom –> aversive state –> psychological reactance: motivation to restore freedom
What is intrinsic motivation
people like the activity, feels good
What are the 3 types of intrinsic motivation identified by Vallerand and Losier?
IM towards knowledge, towards accomplishment, towards experiencing stimulation
What are the categories in the Organismic Integration Theory?
Intrinsic: activity itself
Integrated: part of identity
Identified: activity is important
Introjected: internal pressures
External: external to activity
Amotivation: lack of motivation
What is an example of how to measure extrinsic motivation?
BREQ questionnaire
What did they find in the articles that tested the relationship between different types of motivation and exercise behavior?
more self-determined forms of motivation predicted greater exercise behavior
What is a good strategy for changing motivation
Autonomy support
What is autonomy support
creating an environment that allows individuals to feel that they have control over their behavior and experiences
What is the over-justification effect
When rewarding an activity that the individual already enjoyed, they attribute origin of behavior to external source, rather than internal
What are some consequences of external rewards
behavior becomes contingent on reward
reward becomes goal, not the behavior itself
locus of causality shifts from internal to external
evidence for over-justification effect