Tuesday, March 4, 2014

03//03/14 Achievement Motivation


  • Achievement Motivation (What motivates us to work?)
    • Intrinsic Motivators
      • Rewards we get internally, such as enjoyment or satisfaction.
    • Extrinsic Motivators
      • Rewards that we get for accomplishments from outside ourselves (grades or money, etc.)
  • Management Theory
    • Theory X
      • Manages believes that employees will work only if rewarded with benefits or threatened with punishment,.
      • Think employees are extrinsically motivated.
      • Only if interested in Maslow's lower needs.
    • Theory Y
      • Managers believed that employees are internally motivated to do good work and policies should encourage this internal notice.
      • Interested in Maslow's higher needs.
  • James- Long Theory of Emotion
    • Experience of emotion is awareness of physiological responses to emotion- arousing stimuli. 
      1. Sight of oncoming car (Perception or stimulus)
      2. Pounding heart (Arousal)
      3. Fear (Emotion)
        • We feel emotion because of biological changes caused by stress.
        • The body changes and out mind recognizes and feelings.
    • William James & Carl Lang came up with James- Lang Theory of Emotion
  • Cannon- Bard Theory of Emotion
    1. Perception of stimulus
    2. Arousal and emotion
      • Emotion- arousing stimuli simultaneous trigger
  • Schachter's Two- Factor Theory of Emotion
    1. Perception of stimulus
    2. Arousal and cognitive label
    3. Fear (emotion)
      • To experience, one must:
        • Be physically aroused
        • Cognitively label or arousal
  • Emotion- Lie Detectors
    • Polygraph
      • Machine commonly used in attempts to detect lies
      • Measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion
        1. Perspiration
        2. Cardiovascular
        3. Breathing changes
  • Experienced Emotion
    • Catharsis
      • Emotional Release
      • Catharsis Hypothesis
        • Releasing aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges.
    • Feel- Good, Do- Good Phenomenon
      • People's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.
    • Adaptation- Level phenomenon
      • Tendency to form judgments relative to a "neutral" level
        • Brightness of lights
        • Volume of Sound
        • Level of income
      • Defined by our prior experience 
    • Relative Deprivation
      • Perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself. 

1 comment:

  1. I feel as though if I were to be put to a polygraph test I'd fail miserably even if I were to be telling the truth, the fact that and sign of deception would be recorded would be enough to make me nervous and physically portray guilt.

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