18 Questions
What is the main difference between an external event being controlling and an external event being informational?
Controlling events restrict choices, while informational events provide guidance.
What leads to amotivation according to the text?
Failure to nurture autonomy
How does autonomy relate to intrinsic motivation?
Autonomy supports intrinsic motivation by fostering choice.
Which environmental event nurtures the need for competence?
Highly structured environment
According to Csikszentmihalyi's model of flow, what are the emotional consequences of a mismatch between activity challenge and personal competence?
Frustration and anxiety
How can any task be made enjoyable according to flow theory?
By adjusting challenge level and enhancing skills
What is the main distinction between exchange and communal relationships?
Exchange relationships are based on mutual benefit, while communal relationships focus on giving and supporting without expecting anything in return.
Why do communal relationships better satisfy the need for relatedness compared to exchange relationships?
Communal relationships offer unconditional support and foster a sense of belonging.
Which of the following is NOT a key aspect of a highly structured environment?
Flexibility and freedom of choice
Why do people often feel both positive and negative emotions when facing standards of excellence?
The fear of failure generates negative emotions, while the desire for success generates positive emotions.
In Atkinson's model of achievement behavior, which term represents a personality variable in the formula Ts = Ms x Ps x Is?
Ps
Which of the following represents an environmental event that nurtures the need for relatedness?
A team-building retreat focused on trust-building activities
What contributes to someone studying or practicing by getting started and persisting for a long time, according to the dynamics-of-action model of achievement motivation?
Instigation, inhibition, and consummation
What is the primary difference between the need for affiliation and the need for intimacy?
The need for affiliation focuses on growth-related social motivation while the need for intimacy focuses on deficit-related social motivation.
Which implicit motive is associated with deficit-related affiliation social motivation?
Affiliation
How do instigation, inhibition, and consummation contribute to someone using Facebook, according to the dynamics-of-action model of achievement motivation?
They play a role in why people log on and continue to use the internet site.
Which psychological need is related to interpersonal aggression?
Power
How do the implicit motives of achievement, affiliation, and power differ in terms of their behavioral consequences?
Achievement motive focuses on personal competence, affiliation motive focuses on social connections, and power motive focuses on control over others.
Explore the concepts of external events being controlling and informational, the causes of amotivation, and the psychological need for autonomy in Chapter 6 of Psychology. Learn how autonomy relates to intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and identify environmental events that nurture autonomy.
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