KP381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Critical Role, Weight Loss, Achievement Orientation
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People participant for more than one reason. People may have competing motives for involvement. People have both shared and unique motives. Guideline 3: change the environment to enhance motivation. Guideline 4: people play a critical role in determining the motivation of others. Guideline 5: use behaviour modi cation to change undesirable participant motives. Motivation is a key variable in both learning and performance contexts. Physical and psychological factors beyond motivation in uence behaviour must be considered. Some motivational factors are more easily in uenced than others. Achievement motivation: a persons orientation to strive for task success, press in the face of failure, and experience pride in accomplishments. Competitiveness: a disposition to serve for satisfaction when making comparisons with some standard of excellence in the presence of evaluative others. Theories of achievement motivation: need achievement theory, attribution theory, achievement goal theory, competence motivation theory, need achievement theory, attribution theory, achievement goal theory.
