PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Pizza Hut, Motivation, Intrinsic Activity
15 Feb 2018
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Well, it destroys intrinsic motivation: teacher started giving sophie these socially important books rather than fantasy. In 5th grade, kids get a whole hour in afternoon to read books: koestner = pissed; he was giving his daughter the fantasy books because she, kids become conditioned to only read when adults condition you to. Is the reward expected: how salient is this testing (how intense, and, verbal reward doesn"t have an undermining effect actually. So praise is okay (at least at first) Meta-analysis: expected vs. unexpected, all types of rewards were damaging except verbal, rewards most damaging with younger kids, this is when they are most vulnerable, this is when we overwhelm kids with rewards. Im varies with perceived autonomy: activity needs to make us feel autonomous doing this for myself, what will our motivation do to kids" autonomy, these rewards destroy autonomy, 2. External events can have 1 of 3 meanings: information, controlling, amotivating.
