Lisa Simpson, who are you?

  Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy A rather broad definition of self-efficacy is provided by Bandura (the psychologist who coined the term) as referring to individuals’ belief in their ability to execute behaviors needed to attain specific performances. As such, the self-efficacy term is already fuzzy. Although it includes an array of loose constructs (belief, ability, behavior, outcome expectations), self-efficacy is qualitatively different from each of those taken separately. There are two main components in Bandura’s self-efficacy theory: competence or efficacy beliefs (believing to have the skills needed to do something) and outcome expectations (believing that engaging in certain behaviors will yield the expected success). Lisa has self-beliefs of efficacy (of beliefs of self-efficacy) meaning that she engages in actions because she believes that she can manage to solve any arising issues leading to achieving her set goal. That is why she decides to challenge the company who manufact...

  Lisa’s blues To illustrate how Lisa’s motivations align with the value component of the expectancy and value theories (EVT), I chose to focus on an episode called Lisa’s Blues . One key understanding of the value construct is that it is multidimensional. It can be both distal related to a more trait-like personality characteristic but also proximal fluctuating from situation to situation. That is Lisa’s case too. While she is a model child with previously unchanged intrinsic motivation for school, for instance, one day Lisa experiences a mood swing (or?) and she loses her motivation to do anything. “What’s the point? There is so much suffering in the world. Will it make a difference if I don’t wake up one morning?” Lisa’s questioning stems from trait-like distal values and beliefs she has such as an innate stable interest in the wellbeing of the world, in higher meanings of life, in her scope of agency and of her ability to make a positive difference. In other words, that day, ...

  Lisa’s rivalry The Self-Determination Theory (SDT) aims to show how human basic needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness are impacted by social contexts resulting in either support or erosion of people’s motivations and actions for personal growth, well-being, and constructive integration in the society. To grasp the multilayered phenomena of motivations and regulations at work in humans, the SDT creators, Deci and Ryan, came up with two other sub theories, Cognitive Evaluation Theory (CET) and Organismic Integration Theory (OIT). The CET posits that feelings of competence facilitate intrinsic motivation only in combination with autonomy or an internal perceived locus of causality. External contexts can also cause people to internalize and integrate values and regulations, that become part of their sense of self. In addition to amotivation (lack of motivation) and intrinsic motivation, OIT distinguished four types of extrinsic motivation according to the perceived locus ...