KP181 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter #3: Cognitive Evaluation Theory, Social Cognitive Theory, Reinforcement
11 Feb 2018
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Kp 181 - chapter #3 - motivation and behavioural change. Motivation involves the internal processes, such as your needs, thought, and emotions, that give your behaviour energy and direction. Motivation is the reason why you do the things you do. The behavioural approach to understanding motivation focuses on conditioning, or learning from the environment. Basic features of behavioural approaches to understanding motivation include operant conditioning, vicarious conditioning, and operant strategies. Positive reinforcements involve any factor that increases behaviour. Negative reinforcement involves the removal of any factor that increases behaviour. Punishment is any factor that decreases the behaviour. Operant strategies such self-monitoring is effective for developing and maintaining skills. Self-monitoring involves actually recording your own behaviour in specific situations. Cognitive approach is an approach to understanding motivated behaviour that emphasises the role of thought patterns and cognitive habits. Alternative of thought pattern is based on recognition and identification of ones systems thought biases, automatic thought, and basic beliefs.
