PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Mindset, Motivation
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Top-down processes play an intimate role in determining how our motivational systems function. When reward is added, it interferes with ability to solve puzzle. Severe trauma breaks our cognitive frame, allows us to re-ask (cid:862)(cid:449)hat do i reall(cid:455) (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to do? (cid:863) Least to most motivating: external regulation rewards, punishments, authority command, social pressure, etc. Leads to a lack of creativity, etc. Introjected regulation partial internalization of reward/punishment; contingent self-esteem, ego-involvement. E. g. a kid goes to kindergarten, has fun. Praise, other forms of feedback dependent on performance. They validate your worth when things go well, when they go poorly you feel poorly. Not many experience themselves as fundamentally ok, but rather on if the(cid:455) look good, good grades, (cid:373)ake fu(cid:374)(cid:374)(cid:455) jokes, et(cid:272). (cid:862)i(cid:373) doi(cid:374)g ok (cid:374)o(cid:449), (cid:271)ut i"ll (cid:271)e doi(cid:374)g great (cid:449)he(cid:374) i get to x(cid:863) Personal valuation and importance, integration with values, life goals, self concept, etc. Doing for the sake of doing; engagement, low, enjoyment, growth, challenge, etc.
