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Achievement Motivation: Finding Motivation for Success and Excellence

Discover the motivations behind achievement and how it impacts our daily lives, from studying for exams to excelling in sports and work. Explore intrinsic and extrinsic motivators and learn how to nurture achievement motivation.

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Achievement Motivation: Finding Motivation for Success and Excellence

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  1. So far we have talked about motivations behind simple human behaviors like eating and sex. • What motivates us to do the more complicated behaviors, like studying for the AP test? • What motivates us to work hard in school, in video games, sports, and all those day to day things that take up our day??... We call this type of motivation Achievement Motivation

  2. Achievement Motivation -A desire for significant accomplishments with high standards of excellence Some people have high levels of achievement motivation and some have low levels

  3. People who have LOW need for achievement prefer very easy tasks. People with HIGH need for achievement prefer moderately difficult tasks. Motive for Success • Success is important. • Failure is not embarrassing.

  4. Why are some people highly motivated, while others are not? • May be set in place by early in life by parents and teachers. • Children may learn to associate achievement with expectations (intrinsic or extrinsic). Strong argument for what playing a part in achievement motivation? Nurture

  5. Achievement Motivation and Motivating People to Perform Psychologists often study the work world and school environment to look at how we can use AM to increase performance in school and the workplace

  6. Industrial and Organizational Psychology • Field of Psychology that helps companies increase productivity • The psychologist will look at managers, etc. to see how they treat the people under them. • The managers are then placed into one of two different motivational styles • Theory X or Theory Y

  7. Theory X • Assumes that students and workers are basically lazy, error-prone and must never be trusted • To work more, they must be given money or rewards • Extrinsically motivated

  8. Theory Y • Assumes that students and workers are motivated intrinsically • Must be given freedom and autonomy

  9. Which would you rather work for? • Organizations are moving to Theory Y style and hiring organizational psychologists to help promote intrinsic motivation in the workplace

  10. Final thoughts on Motivation • What happens when motives conflict? • Sometimes what you want to do in a situation is clear to you, but at other times you no doubt find yourself conflicted about what choice to make. • Psychologists discuss four types of motivational conflicts.

  11. Approach – Approach Conflict • Occurs when you must choose between two desirable outcomes. • On Friday night, should you go to the movies with your best friend or to dinner with that really cute guy/girl from history class. • Assuming both choices appeal to you, you have a conflict because you can only chose one

  12. Avoidance – Avoidance Conflict • Occurs when you must choose between two unattractive outcomes • If your parents tell you to clean your room or to rake leaves and you desire neither one you are experiencing an avoidance-avoidance conflict. • “Damned if you do and damned if you don’t”

  13. Approach – Avoidance Conflict • Exists when ONE event or goal has both attractive and unattractive features • Let’s say that you love Taco Bell but the beans give you gas. • Taco Bell has both attractive (tastes goood) and unattractive (bad gas) features

  14. Multiple Approach-Avoidance Conflicts • Here you must choose between two or more things, each of which as both desirable and undesirable features. • The best example is choosing a college that you want to go to. • Obviously you are deciding between JMU and VT. • JMU has better parties and food (attractive), but their parking is bad (unattractive). VT has a good ROTC (attractive), but ugly colors, bad football team and bad parties. (unattractive)

  15. Brian hates studying but he doesn’t want to face his parents if he flunks • Avoidance-Avoidance • Tina cant decide which of her two favorite courses to study first – Psychology or English • Approach-Approach • Sharon loves rich high-calorie desserts but doesn’t want to put on weight. • Approach-Avoidance • Rosalie wants to be more assertive about her own beliefs with her boyfriend but is afraid of losing him. • Approach-Avoidance • Tim doesn’t want to be dropped from the football team, but he doesn’t want to give up smoking either. • Avoidance-Avoidance

  16. Intrinsic Motivation • A desire to perform a behavior for its own sake. • To get enjoyment or satisfaction

  17. Extrinsic Motivation • A desire to perform a behavior due to promised rewards or threats of punishment.

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