4. SDT focuses on “volitional” behaviors, which can be defined as:
4. SDT focuses on “volitional” behaviors, which can be defined as:
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Behaviors you do willingly and are enacted out of interest or value for the activity itself.
Behaviors that are enacted without any external inputs or influence
Behaviors that are enacted out of the desire to please another person.
12. Which of the following is true of the “free choice paradigm”?
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The amount of time participants spend on the original task during the free choice period is used to assess differences in intrinsic motivation between two conditions: a condition in which some evaluative pressure or reward had been provided for doing the task and a control condition with no such incentive.
This is a paradigm in personality research that examines the activities participants choose to engage in as a way to predict certain personality characteristics.
Participants are given a very boring and mundane task to perform. Half are provided with some external pressure or reward to perform the task and half are only told simply to “do their best”. Differences in task performance between the two groups are then assessed.
Researchers use this paradigm to determine which activities children find most intrinsically interesting so that these can then be employed in an educational setting.