PSYCH 13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Confabulation, Psych, Learned Helplessness
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Illusion of will (wegner): idea that we are in control of our behaviour is an illusion; most behaviour is actually caused by automatic, uncontrollable & inaccessible mental processes. Participants confabulated an untrue story to justify their favoured choice of item (when all items were actually the same) Sequential position actually influenced their favoured choice of item (i. e. items seen last were more likely to be picked) Influence of sequential position is not accessible to humans. Intrinsic motivation freely engage in behaviour because they enjoy it. Reduces quality, creativity & future freely-chosen performance. Extrinsic motivation non-enjoyable behaviours to due to incentives (rewards, punishments, evaluation) Self-handicapping: handicapping own performance when you expect failure. Defend sense of self from anticipated failure by creating external causes for poor performance. E. g. expect to fail exam get drunk night before exam drunkenness was reason for failure, not intelligence. Gave participants prior test where they did well or poorly. Group 1: expected to succeed on 2nd test.
