PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Motivation, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Social Skills
13 Apr 2018
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Tricks adults use to motivate children: offer rewards, offer praise, introduce competition. Organized sport involvement: parents sign you up for it. Informal: play with friends, you do it yourself. When the profs intrinsic motivation for basketball was ruined: High schools invited through lottery to play a game in madison square garden. The whole school was there, his parents, etc. Prof performed poorly; took 10 shots and only made 1. The coach yelled at him when he asked to be taken out. At a certain point, most drop out of playing organized sport as the competition gets harder and only those who. Commitment= desire and resolve to continue sports participation. Not the same as intrinsic motivation, but similar. Sports enjoyment affective reaction to whatevers involved in the sport. Involvement opportunities opportunities the child gets from doing this sport eg. feel competent, feel connected to other kids. Personal investments how many hours of training, money, etc.
