PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Motivation, Ibm Officevision, Mindset

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 471
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

Questions of the day: what is the impact of competition on intrinsic motivation, on average, competition has been a negative factor for intrinsic motivation and can lead to poor sportsmanship. In the lab, you can"t design things where the competition focuses on challenge and mastery. Is it important to prepare children for competition so that they are ready to thrive in real world settings: the biggest danger of this competition is that it goes with the reward and undermines our i. m. Basketball stories: organized vs informal sport involvement, organized, anecdote: prof got involved in organized sports where they had a team, practices, etc, unlike his brother, prof stopped playing basketball because he got his intrinsic motivation destroyed, Informal: anecdote: prof"s brother was 4 years older and didn"t know how to speak english well, so he was slow to get accultured. When prof"s. intrinsic motivation to play basketball was obliterated anecdote.