Psychology 2062A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Abusive Power And Control, Controllability, Cognitive Evaluation Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2062A/B
• Professor: Stephanie Kelly

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What is motivation: motivation: an internal state that arouses, directs, and maintains behaviour, the 5 areas of motivation: choices, getting started, intensity, persistence, and thoughts and feelings, people are motivated both by state and trait. They might be motivated to get something done (state), but only be motivated in that moment. And/or they might just have personality traits that make them a motivated person. Intrinsic motivation: motivation associated with activities that are their own reward. Extrinsic motivation is not driven by the love of the task itself. We care only about what we will gain from it. Locus of causality: the location (internal/external) of the cause of behaviour. Students may freely choose to do the activity based on personal interests (internal locus of causality/ intrinsic motivation). Or because someone or something else outside is influencing them (external locus of causality/ external motivation). Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation fall on a spectrum of intent.