Psychology Of Motivation

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Autonomy (Intrinsic Motivation)

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The psychological need to experience self direction and personal endorsement in the intitiation and regulation of one's behavior

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Internal Perceived Locus of Causality-Autonomy

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an individuals understanding of the cause source of his or her motivated actions

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Volition(Autonomy)

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an unpressured willingness to engage in an activity

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Perceived choice over one's Actions(Autonomy)

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sense of choice we experience when we are in environments that provide us with decision making flexibility that affords us with many opportunites to choose.

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Four Essentiall Ways of Supporting Autonomy

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1. Nurtures Inner Motivational Resources
2. Relies of Informational Language
3. Promotes Valuing
4. Acknowleges and Accepts Negative Affect

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Competence

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A psychological need to be effective in interations with the environment.

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Involving Competence:
1. Optimal Challenge and Flow

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Flow: A state of concentration that involves a holistic absorption in an activity.
Feeling "in the zone"
Nothing else seems to matter

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2. Interdependency between challage and feedback

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Setting the stage for challenge and performance feedback

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Structure

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information about the pathways to desired outcomes, support and guidence for pursing these pathways.

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Failure Tolerance

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Considerable error making is essential for optimizing learning, failure produces opportunites for learning

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Flow Challenge VS. Skill

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Anxiety-Arousal-Flow-Control-Relaxation-Boredom-Apathy-Worry

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Relatedness

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A psychological need to establish close emotional bonds and attachments with other people.

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Acquired Needs:

Quasi-Needs

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Ephemeral, situationally induced wants that create tense energy to enagage in behavior capable of reducing the built up tension.

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Quasi- Needs Examples

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-needing money at the store
-a band aid after a cut
-an umbrella in the rain

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Social Needs

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An acquired psychological process that grows out of one's socialization history that activates emotional responses to a particular need- relevant incentive.
-achievement
-affiliation
-intamacy
-power