Motivation Flashcards
What is motivation?
psychological and social factors that impel a person to act
Internal and External forces the produce interaction, direction, intensity and persistence of behavior
What are views of motivation?
Participant or trait-centered views (innate, the want to do things)
Situation-centered view (environment impels you)
Interactional view
What are five guidelines for building motivation?
1) Both situation and traits motivate people
2) Multiple motives for involvement. Understand why people participate in physical activity
3) Change the environment to enhance motivation
- Provide both competitive and recreational opportunities
- Provide multiple motives
- Adjust to individuals
4) Leaders influence motivation directly and indirectly
5) Use behavior modification to change desirable participant motives
How to develop a realistic view of motivation?
Motivation = key variable in learning and performance
Physical and psychological factors beyond motivation must be considered
Some motivational factors are more easily influenced
What is achievement motivation?
Persons orientation for success persist in the face of failure
What is competitiveness?
Disposition to strive for satisfaction when making comparisons with standards of excellence in the presence of evaluative others
What are achievement motivation influences?
Choices of activities (task vs proving your better)
Effort to pursue goals
Intensity of effort
Persistence
What are need achievement criticisms?
1) lack of understanding of intensity of behavior
2) suggests people are passive
3) Only explains internal markers
What is the attribution theory?
An inference about the cause of an event
Affects future expectations, emotions and behaviors
What are the three categories of attributions?
Stability (how permanent)
Locus of causality (Thing that caused the outcome to happen)
Locus of control (who is in charge of that orientation
What are the habitual attribution patterns?
Pessimistic explanatory style
Optimistic explanatory style
What is the pessimistic explanatory style?
Tendency to habitual attribute failure to stable usually internal factors leading to negative emotions
Behaviors= learned helplessness
AKA Depressive attribution style
What is the optimistic explanatory style?
Tendency to habitually attribute failure to unstable factors, either internal or external, leading to more positive emotions
Behavior= motivated to keep trying
What is the best failure attribution?
Attribution is directed towards unstable controllable factors
How do you measure attributions?
Casual dimension scale 2
Athlete rates perceived cause for outcome then rate cause relative to 9 questions
High score = more internal
Lower score = more external
What are the implication for practice of attribution theory?
Be aware of reasons for success/failure
Make attributions that will enhance rather then undermine motivation
Athlete should be accountable for their performance and encouraged to believe there is hope after failure
What are criticisms of the attributions theory?
Attributions depend on values Biases Doesn't cover all attributions Meaning of attributions is unclear Methodological problems: -awareness -male vs female; team vs individual
What is the achievement goal theory?
The meaning that individuals assign to achievement situations
- Provide cognitive structures of a person’s definition of success/failure
- developed for academic but applied to sport/PA
What is achievement goal theory in sport?
1) achievement goals (disposition)
2) perceived ability (interaction)
3) motivational climate(situation dependent)
4) achievement behavior (displayed behavior)
What is achievement goal orientation
Disposition tendency to adopt certain goals
- Ego/outcome: normative social comparison
- Task mastery: focused on personal mastery
- Social goals: Judging competence in terms of affiliation with group and recognition of being liked by others
In achievement goal orientation what does success/failure depend on?
Perceptions of whether he/she has reached his/her goals
-Intensity and effort are driven by goal type
Degree of involvement lies a long a continuum.
Perceived ability: determined by self-referencing or normative standards
What is perceived ability?
High in task orientation = stable perception of ability
Change occurs based on improvement and learning
High ego = more fragile perception
To protect themselves choose amount of effort to invest. with drawl if failure is eminent
What are predictions from acheivement goal theory?
Task orientation = positive and adaptive pattern of cognitive, affective and behavioral responses
-effort and persistence, task choice, intrinsic motivation
-Positive belief and value structure about sport and the role and purpose
Ego orientation experience these if they perceive high ability
What are the dangers of adopting an outcome orientation?
High ego + low perceived competence = maladaptive behaviors
