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