PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Learning Organization, Mindset, Motivation
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One of the best developed literatures in psychology has to do with how people motivate themselves and are motivated by others, with the roles that motivational structures, like goals, play in determining our behaviours, thoughts, emotions, health. And despite the early dominance of behaviourist approaches, psychologists now recognize the intimate role that top-down processes play in determining how our motivational system functions. Through punishment - people change their behaviour to avoid threats for the future anticipation of negative outcomes. Not self-determined self-determined doing for the sake of doing: engagement, flow, enjoyment, growth, etc personal valuation and importance, integration with values, life goals, self-concept, etc partial internalization of reward/punishment; contingent self-esteem, ego-involvement rewards, punishments, authority command, social pressure, etc . Intrinsic motivation: the inherent tendency to seek out novelty and challenges, to extend and exercise one"s capacities, to explore, and to learn. Or for the sake of meaning (integrity, values, purpose, etc )
