Key Terms Examples
Before games, coaches will give their team a speech to get the fired up and ready to go win the game.
What is Motivation?
We behave certain ways because there are needs that we need to fulfill.
What is the Manifest Needs Theory?
This class was told that there will be a reward for winning this Jeopardy game so therefore everyone will want to play and try to win since there is a reward and if there was a punishment they would want to avoid playing.
What is the Open Conditioning Theory?
Students attend class at Wheaton because attendance plays a part in their final grades so they do not want their grade to be effected.
What is the Need for Achievement?
In sports when someone on the team messes up in practice the coach makes the team run in hopes that the team will not mess up again.
What is a Punishment?
Throughout our lives we learn that there are multiple needs that we need to fulfill.
What is the Learned Needs Theory?
A certain company gives you a massive project that needs to be completed in 3 months. At first you do not know how you feel about it but then you find out if you do well you will get a massive raise so therefore you push yourself to do well because you know that you will be getting as much out of this project as you put into it.
What is the Equity Theory?
College students go out to parties and social gatherings to have fun but also to find some sort of affection and love.
What are Social Needs?
Everyday we wake up needing food and water to survive.
What are Primary Needs?
Before we can go out and socialize with friends at school we must first eat food and drink water.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
In a math class at Wheaton you have a exam coming up and you tell yourself that you are going to get an A on that exam. Since you have made that decision you are now going to exert more effort than normally would to accomplish that.
What is the Goal Theory?
Some call Michael Jordan the greatest basketball player of all time because of his knowledge, skills, and receptiveness to learning specific skills needed to be a great basketball player
What is ability?
Throughout a person's life they learn that they feel satisfied when they are in control of a group of people.
What is the Need for Power?
In school many people have a mix of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to succeed and preform well in the classroom.
What is the Self Determination Theory?
Professional sports players exert tons of effort to preform at high levels because they know that the better they perform the higher payday they will have at the end of the season.
What is Expectancy Theory?
When we perform well at our jobs over a longer period of time we expect that the company will eventually be giving us a raise in salary for the amount of effort we put in to preform well.
What are Outcomes?