PSY-0001 Lecture 11: class11- motivation
27 Jan 2017
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The psychological and biological processes that impel people, and other organisms, into action and sustain their efforts over time. How do you motivate yourself to achieve your goal. The need to belong: a social need for belonging motivates people to spend time with other individuals and to become part of social groups. -we compare rejection to physical pain(e. g. broken-hearted/ emotional scars ) Being forced to look at the pictures of exes shows a similar brain activity pattern to that of having been put a hot compress on participants" arms. Engaging in meaningful activities that contribute to psychological growth(volunteering, giving to charity, helping others reach their potential) Unrealistic optimism judging desirable events as more likely and undesirable events as less likely, to happen to you than to other people. Self-serving bias the tendency to attribute positive outcomes to internal causes and to attribute negative outcomes to external/ situational causes.
