Reeves Ch 6 Flashcards
- What are the three fundamental psychological needs?
Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness.
- What is the importance of satisfying these psychological needs?
➡ Leads to engagement, personal growth, intrinsic motivation, internalization, health, and well-being.
- What happens when these needs are frustrated?
➡ Leads to disengagement, anxiety, poor motivation, and mental health issues.
- What is autonomy?
The need to experience self-direction and personal control over one’s actions.
- How can autonomy be supported?
✅ Take the other person’s perspective.✅ Nurture psychological need satisfaction.✅ Provide explanatory rationales.✅ Acknowledge and accept negative affect.✅ Use invitational language.✅ Display patience.
- What are the benefits of autonomy support?
➡ Increased motivation, engagement, self-worth, conceptual learning, grades, well-being, and better health behaviors.
- What is the conundrum of choice in autonomy?
➡ Not all choices promote autonomy.➡ Forced or trivial choices do not support autonomy.➡ Meaningful and self-endorsed choices enhance autonomy.
- What is competence?
➡ The need to feel effective and capable in one’s interactions with the environment.
- What supports competence?
✅ Optimal challenge✅ Flow✅ Structure (clear expectations, guidance, feedback)✅ Failure tolerance
- What is flow?
➡ A state of deep concentration and absorption in an optimally challenging task.
- How does flow relate to competence?
➡ Flow occurs when skill and challenge are balanced.
- What are the three aspects of structured learning that support competence?
✅ Clear expectations✅ Guidance✅ Constructive feedback
- Why is failure tolerance important for competence?
➡ Failure provides learning opportunities, helping people refine strategies and develop resilience.
What is relatedness?
The need to establish close emotional bonds and meaningful relationships with others.
What factors support relatedness?
✅ Involving relatedness (engaging in social interaction).✅ Satisfying relatedness through responsive and reciprocal relationships.✅ Communal relationships (genuine care) over exchange relationships (transactional).
