Unit 2 - Why We Do Things

the science of human behavior and mental processes

• Psychology

• Sociology

• Social Emotional

a need or desire that leads behavior and directs it towards a goal.

• self-drive

• grit

• motivation

Internal desires to perform a particular task

• intrinsic motivation

• extrinsic motivation

• incentives

Factors external to the individual and unrelated to the task they are performing motivate the person.

• intrinsic motivation

• extrinsic motivation

• grit

• locus of control

set pattern of behavior that is not acquired by learning and likely genetic

• instinct

• drive

• motivation

Used to describe how the level of autonomy (control) a person has over their life could influence their behavior

• locus of control

• motivation

• extrinsic motivation

where ideas and experiences are mentally linked, to reinforce new knowledge with a connection to older knowledge!

• associative learning

• modeling

• shaping

behavior is determined by what PRECEDES it; involuntary; the environment provides the stimulus and the subject responds

• classical conditioning

• operant conditioning

• modeling

behavior is determined by what FOLLOWS it; voluntary

• classical conditioning

• operant conditioning

• aquisition

Observing the behavior of others increases the chances that we will do the same thing

• modeling

• aquisition

• shaping