Chapter 5 Flashcards
Psychological need
An inherent source of motivation that generates the desire to interact with the environment so to advance personal growth, social development, and psychological well-being
3 psychological needs
Autonomy
Competence
Relatedness
2 assumptions of the organismic approach to motivation
People are inherently active - always in active exchange with their environment
People need supportive, rather than hostile, environments
Why are people always in active exchange with their environment?
Because the environments offer the organism what it needs to be well, to grow, and to actualize its potential
What does need satisfaction lead to?
Growth and adaptive functioning
What does need frustration lead to?
Defense and maladaptive functioning
Explain the dual process model
Supportive relationships and social contexts, which lead to need satisfaction, which leads to adaptive functioning, growth, well-being
Thwartive relationships and social contexts, which lead to need frustration, which leads to maladaptive functioning, defensiveness, ill-being
Autonomy
The psychological need to experience self-direction and personal endorsement in the initiation and regulation of one’s behaviour
When are motivation and behaviour autonomous?
When they originate within our own personal interests, wants, goals, values, preferences
When our interests and preferences guide our decision-making process for engagement in activities
Explain how not all choices promote autonomy
“Either-or” choice offerings
Choice among options offered by others
What do meaningful choice that reflects people’s values & interests enhance?
A sense of need-satisfying autonomy
Intrinsic motivation, effort, creativity, preference for challenge, and performance
Name 3 motivating styles
Autonomy support
Neutral
Controlling
Explain the motivational style of autonomy support
An interpersonal tone of understanding
I am your ally
I am here to understand you
I am here to support you and your strivings
Explain the motivational style of controlling
The interpersonal tone of pressure
I am your boss
I am here to monitor you
I am here to change and to socialize you
3 core aspects of an autonomy-supportive motivating style
Perspective taking
Support interest and intrinsic motivation
Support value and internalization
Perspective taking
Seeing the situation as if you were the other person
The starting point to an autonomy-supportive motivating style
Support interest and intrinsic motivation
Encourage the pursuit of personal interests and goals
Present activities in need-satisfying ways
Support value and internalization
Provide explanatory rationales
Acknowledge and accept negative feelings
Rely on invitational language
2 core aspects of a controlling motivational style
Prescribe what the other person should think, feel, and do
Apply pressuring until the other person complies to what they are told to think, feel, or do
Prescribe what the other person should think, feel, and do
Utter directives and commands
Introduce incentives, rewards, bribes, and threats of punishment (extrinsic)
Apply pressuring until the other person complies to what they are told to think, feel, or do
Generate pressure via extrinsic motivation
Generate pressure via introjected regulation (guilt, shame)
Use pressuring language to push for compliance
Counter and try to change (or “fix”) negative feelings
Instead of trying to motivate with this controlling behaviour, consider this alternative autonomy-supportive substitute behaviour: take only your own perspective
Take the other person’s perspective
Instead of trying to motivate with this controlling behaviour, consider this alternative autonomy-supportive substitute behaviour: Introduce extrinsic incentives
Invite the other to pursue a personal interest
Instead of trying to motivate with this controlling behaviour, consider this alternative autonomy-supportive substitute behaviour: Utter directives without explanations
Provide explanatory rationales for requests