Lecture 15: How does competition impact intrinsic motivation?

Question 1

What basketball event does Koestner believe scarred him for life?

Answer 1

Playing at Maddison square garden as a senior.
He was the person who was left unguarded and Koestner couldn’t make the shot because of too much pressure. Lost by 30 pts and lost his position as a starter. Never wanted to play after that

Question 2

What is Scanlon’s Model of Sports Commitment?

Answer 2

Explains why some kids stay with sports and others don’t

Commitment= desire and resolve to continue sports participation

Function of 5 factors that determine if this resolve will be higher or lower:

1. Sports enjoyment
2. Involvement Opportunities (example: opportunities that come out of being involved in the sport: mastery, fun, extrinsic things like recognition)
3. Personal Investments: (time, energy, money etc.) Koestner doesn’t necessarily agree and believes there will be conflict
4. Involvement Alternatives
5. Social Constraints (norms and expectations. Scanlon originally thought that if there were high expectations they would keep you in the sport but now she thinks the opposite. Interpreted as pressure)

Question 3

Which factor does Scanlon consider the most important in her model of sports commitment?

Answer 3

Sports Enjoyment

Question 4

What does Koestner think is the key missing factor in Scanlon’s model of sports commitment is?

Answer 4

Competition

Question 5

What did Deci find in the study with competition in soma puzzles?

Answer 5

intrinsic motivation for the puzzles was half, functioned like rewards

Question 6

When Csikzentmihalyi asked high school basketball players why they enjoyed basketball what was the #1 answer

Answer 6

Competition/Measuring self vs. others

Question 7

Why does intrinsic motivation drop if you lose at a competition?

Answer 7

because you feel incompetent

Question 8

When does intrinsic motivation drop if you win at a competition?

Answer 8

if they feel controlled

Question 9

How did competitiveness and sportsmanship change over the course of a pewee hockey season?

Answer 9

competition is rising and sportsmanship drops

Question 10

What does Koestner think about the notion that we need to teach kids to deal with competition because it’s a part of life?

Answer 10

he doesn’t think it’s true, he thinks that competition isn’t helpful for our important roles in life as a spouse parent or friend and that there is already so much focus on competition in our society that there doesn’t need to be more