PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Motivation, Social Skills, Ingroups And Outgroups
15 Apr 2017
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Stories of sports involvement is a pretty set pattern: Age 7 is peak (in terms of number of kids playing the sport) By age 12 75% of kids are gone. At a certain age kids get the message they"re not good enough to go on. Recreational/informal: having a friendly and relaxed quality . His brother played recreational and he still plays whereas koestner played organized and stopped playing. Zuroff in high school was asked to play at madison square garden ( the. He got psyched out and missed his shots even though he was uncovered. 5 factors to consider to explain why you stay or lost commitment (+=increase commitment -=reduce it) 3) personal investments if you"re practiced a lot, put a lot of money in etc. +; koestner disagrees, this might feel like external pressure and might decrease enjoyment etc. (scanlon would say + but koestner says because it"s extrinsic)
