PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Edward L. Deci, Linear Regression, Motivation
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Three fundamental psychological needs: self determination theory is grounded in the humanistic tradition, which emphasizes responsibility, growth, and the actualizing tendency, actualizing tendency: the motive to actualize or bring about growth and positive change, according to self determination theory, there are three basic and universal psychological needs: autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Fostering competence: structure and optimal challenge: an important part of satisfying the need for competence is working on tasks that are optimally challenging, engagement in tasks that have a clear set of goals, that require appropriate responses, give immediate feedback, and in which people are operating at their maximum capacity can lead to a positive state called flow, overjustification effect: when people lose interest in a formerly intrinsically interesting activity as a result of extrinsic control, the key to predicting when rewards or threats of punishments will have negative effects on motivation and performance is to realize the external motivators can convey two meanings: control and information.
