{"id":4400,"date":"2018-09-21T19:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T23:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2019-05-25T23:37:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T03:37:57","slug":"cognitive-motivation-competence-and-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/motivation\/cognitive-motivation-competence-and-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Motivation Competence and Control"},"content":{"rendered":"
Characteristics of the Fully Functioning Individual<\/p>\n
o <\/strong>More emotional, experience wider range of emotions and experience emotions more intensely<\/p>\n – <\/strong>Fully functioning person is in \u201cprocess\u201d of continual striving to enhance self vs. in a \u201cstate\u201d<\/p>\n Criticisms of Roger\u2019s Approach<\/p>\n – <\/strong>Summary: Roger\u2019s theory is empirically weak: he did not specify components of his theory enough in order to be tested –<\/strong><\/p>\n Hierarchy of Needs<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Non-satisfaction of this need can be used to understand disorders i.e. in obsessive-compulsive disorder, non-satisfaction of safety need causes individual to react as if continually in threatening situation<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Dissatisfaction of this need is most common basis for behaviour problems in our society; it leads to behavioral maladjustment and pathology<\/p>\n – <\/strong>Negative attributes of self-actualized individuals: pride in belongings, can be ruthless, impolite, and stubborn; their extreme abilities to concentrate cause them to appear absent-minded; feel guilt, anxiety and conflict b\/c of their realization that they are not all they want to be – <\/strong>Failure to self-actualize due to:<\/p>\n Criticisms of Self-Actualization<\/p>\n – <\/strong>Shostrom made inventor that discriminated between: self-actualized, normal and non-self-actualized o Self-actualized people: less restricted by social pressures or conformity o Self actualized people have time competence<\/strong>: can live in present + positively tie past and future events to the present and their aspirations are tied to goals that he\/she is presently striving –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Privette contrasted:<\/p>\n o \u201cflow is fun\u201d; people engage in activities that create sense of flow b\/c they are enjoyable \uf0e0 thus, can be planned unlke other 2<\/p>\n Competence<\/p>\n Personal Causation<\/p>\n when hungry, we seek food)<\/p>\n Origins and Pawns<\/p>\n Bandura\u2019s Social Cognitive Theory of Human Agency<\/p>\n Core Features of Human Agency<\/p>\n Personal Proxy and Collective Agency –\u00a0 <\/strong>3 modes of human agency:<\/p>\n Applying the Social Cognitive Theory of Human Agency<\/p>\n Self-Determinant Theory<\/p>\n Psychological Needs and the Development of Intrinsic Motivation –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Intrinsic motivation:<\/strong> value or pleasure associated w\/activity o Related to overall psychological health and functioning o Mediated by fulfillment of 3 basic needs of determination theory:<\/p>\n positive emotions, positive individual traits and virtues <\/strong>and positive institutions<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pleasures can be enhanced by depriving ourselves of stimuli that activate them of through mindfulness: <\/strong>focusing one\u2019s attention on the moment rather than engaging in a pleasure-inducing activity automatically or reflexively<\/p>\n Criticisms of Positive Psychology<\/p>\n Humanistic psychology: studies persistent motive within individuals to become competent in dealing w\/environment Successful completion of task causes task to lose some of its value so that new and… Continue Reading Cognitive Motivation Competence and Control<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[110],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4849,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions\/4849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Abraham Maslow and Self-Actualization<\/h2>\n
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A Revised Hierarchy of Needs<\/h2>\n
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The Rise of Positive Psychology<\/h2>\n
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