Test 1 Flashcards
What are three behaviors that we use to describe motivation
Initiation intensity and persistence
What is motivation about
The why of behavior
What are the three steps in the process of motivation
- Defining a goal to which the person aspires. (goal selection)
- Choosing a course of action leads to attainment of the goal. (behavior selection, intention)
- Carrying out the chosen course of action. (behavior implementation)
What are antecedents of motivation
Personal need and environmental demand
Explain personal need
An inside desire that creates an action towards a goal. Example is a mother wants to feel nurturing to their child they go to the crib and look at the child lovingly
Explain environmental demand
And outside factor demanding action. Example is there smoke coming out of a babies bedroom the mother rushes and gets the child to takes it to safety
How is intensity of behaviors
Through the expenditure of effort
Where does human motivation take place
In social settings. This follows with the concept of truism
Define hedonism
The doctrine that human behavior is animated by the search for pleasure (instant gratification, live in the now)
Define stoicism
The virtual voluntarily bringing one’s life into conformity with the laws of nature
What impact did Christianity have on motivation
Basically pointed out that there’s free will and you have a choice it’s not just biological
In the middle ages what was the primary concepts for motivation
Voluntarism along with the Christianity free will
What is voluntarism
Human beings are conscious and aware of what they are doing. Body and soul with the option to choose.
Explain materialism
Human beings can initiate nothing on their own just as a machine cannot go into motion until it is activated by some outside source. (Physiological psychology and evolution)
What is the difference between idiographic and nomothetic
Idiographic is unique where you study one person whereas nomothetic you study groups and find out the similarities
Daniel Pink Ted Talk, what do scientist know vs what businesses do
Incentives do not work or may do harm. Extrinsic motivators is what businesses do (incentives) this only works for simple sets of rules to solve the problem but not for more critical problem solving.
Explain the scientific perspective on motivation
Behavior is caused and we can understand it and explain it
Define empiricism
Learning is emphasized. Experience is the basis of knowledge
What are the modern approaches to motivation
Need theories, drive, growth, humanistic, and cognitive
What is the unconscious approach to understanding motivation
Instinctual, biological, Freudians
Explain the need theory
Instead of a specific instinct for every behavior, a small set of needs my instigate all behavior as the Maslow pyramid chart suggest or thematic appreciation test or Murray (affiliation, achievement, power)
Explain drive as a modern approach
The type of behaviorism where behavior is result of deprivation or like the Bandura study where the children are with the clown punch bag
What is a metaphor for motivation
Motivation is meaning to move from the Latin word movere
The idea of emotion has a connotation of expenditures of effort and the conversion of potential energy to actually energy
Defined structuralism
psychology address itself mainly to the structure and content of human experience as revealed through the method of introspection. A metaphor in theories of cognitive structure and conceptualization of memory in terms of discrete compartments in which different memorial units are stored
