Lecture 3 Flashcards
What is the difference between personality psychology and social psychology?
Personality psychology says who you are determines how you feel and behave. Social psychology says who you are with determines how you feel and behave.
What is well-being?
A state of happiness of contentment
What is job-satisfaction?
An attitude towards a job in terms of the rewards and context of the work itself
According to the Hedonic perspective, how is well-being defined?
The presence of pleasure and the absence of pain
According to the Eudaimonic perspective, how is well-being defined?
Satisfaction of psychological needs. Measured by level of self acceptance, positive relationships etc
According to the Resource perspective, what is well-being?
Having resources to satisfy psychological needs and insure against future frustrations. Resources can be emotions, money, social network
According to Maslach and Jackson, what are the three dimensions of burnout?
-Emotional exhaustion
-Depersonalisation
-(Reduced) Personal performance
What is performance?
Any activity or collection of responses that leads to a result or has an effect on the environment
What does the Happy-Productive hypothesis propose?
That happy workers have higher levels of job-related performance behaviours
What are the five generic personality traits?
-Extroversion
-Agreeableness
-Conscientiousness
-Emotional stability
-Openness
Out of the Big Five personality traits, which one has the strongest correlation to well-being?
Neuroticism (the opposite of emotional stability)
Out of the Big Five personality traits, which one has the strongest relationship with motivation?
Neuroticism (the opposite of emotional stability)
What are four abilities that are part of emotional stability?
-Self awareness and self understanding
-Self regulation
-Social skills
-Empathy
Why does emotional intelligence increase performance?
-Negotiation
-Colleague and customer service
-Decision making
-Motivation
When we talk about motivation, what are the three psychological needs?
-Need for relatedness
-Need for competence
-Need for autonomy
What is the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation?
Intrinsic means you take pleasure in the task itself. Extrinsic motivation can be wanting to achieve goals, wanting rewards or fearing punishment
How does extrinsic motivation affect intrinsic motivation?
When there are extrinsic incentives linked to performance then these “crowd out” intrinsic motivations.
How do extrinsic and intrinsic motivations affect performance?
Extrinsic motivation was a good predictor of the quantity of the performance, intrinsic motivation predicted the quality
What is a key take away from self-determination theory?
Providing extrinsic motivation for behaviour that had previously only been intrinsically rewarded reduces both motivation and performance
What are basic psychological needs that affect well-being?
-Need for acceptance
-Need for optimal predictability
-Need for skills
What is the effect of attention on performance?
The newer the task is, the more important attention is
