Hello my dear fellow classmates,
So we just started chapter 12 about motivation today and watched a wonderful video. In the video there was one fact that simply baffled me. The video explained that when we are given a mechanical task, the greater the reward we receive the better our performance due to our motivation. However, for cognitive skills, the greater the reward the lower the performance. Isnt that interesting? why do you think that happens?
Furthermore, this reminds me of an article from the time magazine a while ago. The article spoke about anxiety and that some sort of anxiety is actually a good motivator for our performance. So do you think that perhaps the people mentioned before did so poorly because they were so anxious due to the fact taht there was such internal pressure on them to win that large amount? if so, why did taht not happen to those people who had to do a mechanical task?