The basic theme of this book concerns the relations between motivation and achievement, particularly as they relate to educational settings. The issues are addressed from a social-developmental perspective. The book is organized into three sections. The development of intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations is addressed in the first section, where contributors offer their latest account of the distinction between the two orientations, emphasizing how the two motivational systems develop. The effects of motivational orientations on interpersonal interaction and on creativity are addressed in the two subsequent chapters. The second section focuses on the relation between motivation and the experience of competence. Three chapters address the development of competence, affect, and motivation from grade school to junior high; the effects of competence information on intrinsic motivation; and the development of competence assessment processes. In the third section the relation between motivation and achievement is explored. Two chapters discuss the effect of extrinsic pressures on self-regulation, and on the relations among intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, performance, motivational style and learned helplessness. Finally, the concepts of optimal degrees of pressure and performance, and of defensive behavior in the form of self-handicapping, are discussed in the last two chapters. A final summary chapter provides an overview of the basic themes of the book.
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"...will be useful to professionals familiar or interested in the social-cognitive approach to achievement." William G. Graziano, Contemporary Psychology
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Achievement and Motivation was originally published in 1993. It provides a comprehensive review of research conducted on the topic in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Most particularly, it focuses on the research of those in the field who tackle the issue from a social-developmental perspective.
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extrinsic children, competence cues, private academy students, more extrinsic motivational orientation, low expectancy condition, autonomous comparison, more extrinsic orientation, perceived scholastic competence, intrinsic children, subsequent intrinsic interest, competence valuation, subsequent intrinsic motivation, different motivational orientations, perceived cognitive competence, distal goal setting, intrinsic motivational orientation, proximal goal setting, overjustification effect, expectancy situation, internalized motivation, autonomous evaluation, introjected regulation, normative feedback, competence feedback, noncontingent success Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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extrinsic children, competence cues, private academy students, more extrinsic motivational orientation, low expectancy condition, autonomous comparison, more extrinsic orientation, perceived scholastic competence, intrinsic children, subsequent intrinsic interest, competence valuation, subsequent intrinsic motivation, different motivational orientations, perceived cognitive competence, distal goal setting, intrinsic motivational orientation, proximal goal setting, overjustification effect, expectancy situation, internalized motivation, autonomous evaluation, introjected regulation, normative feedback, competence feedback, noncontingent success Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Journal of Personality, New York, Psychological Review, Academic Press, University of Denver, American Psychologist, Journal of Educational Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, Van Nostrand, General Learning Press, Human Development, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Oxford University Press, San Francisco, University of Nebraska Press, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Research, References Atkinson, University of Colorado, American Psychological Association, Cambridge University Press, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Palo Alto, References Amabile New!
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