PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Nancy Cantor, Erin, Ontario, Personal Identity

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

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Cognitive evaluation theory: deci: additive model: bonus, makes reading enjoyable, get better outcomes as a result, starve intrinsic until it withers and dies, thrill gets left behind -- no more pleasure. Burnout : over justification effect, extrinsic undermines intrinsic. Decrease extrinsic value to rediscover intrinsic value: rediscover intrinsic value. Personal identity: based on individuality, special in a unique kind of way, ex. Won hundred meter dash, was on honour role: becomes need for achievement (nach, social identity. The extent to which you are immersed with others -- commonality with peers: ex. Student at university of waterloo, lived in hillsburgh. Becomes need for affiliation (naff: esteem comes from strength and health of these 2 identities -- robust esteem. We are not as perfect as we think we are: easy to take a hit - fail an exam, nancy cantor, buffering hypothesis, the more sources of identity you have, the more buffering you have to do.