What is Motivation?
An internal state that arouses, directs, and maintains behavior
What is motivation?
Fulfilling one's potential
What is self-actualization?
Patterns of beliefs about goals related to achievement in school
What are goal orientations?
An individual's belief about the extent to which a task or assignment is generally useful, enjoyable, or otherwise important
What is value?
A personally held belief that abilities are stable, uncontrollable, set traits
What is fixed mindset?
A complete lack of any intent to act - no engagement at all
What is amotivation?
Maslow's model of seven levels of human needs
What is the hierarchy of needs?
A personal intention to seem competent or perform well in the eyes of others
What is performance goal?
The contribution of a task to meeting one's goal
What is utility value?
A personally held belief that abilities are unstable, controllable, and improvable
Motivation associated with activities that are their own reward
What is intrinsic motivation?
Maslow's four lower-level needs
What are deficiency needs?
A personal intention to improve abilities and learn, no matter how performance suffers
What is mastery goal?
The importance of doing well on a task; how success on the task meets personal needs
What is importance or attainment value?
The expectations, based on prior experiences with a lack of control, that all of one's efforts will lead to failure
What is learned helplessness?
Motivation created by external factors such as rewards and punishment
What is extrinsic motivation?
Maslow's three higher-level needs
What are being needs?
A wide variety of needs and motives to be connected to others or be a part of a group
What is social goal?
The enjoyment a person gets from a task
What is interest or intrinsic value?
Students who believe their failures are due to low ability and there is little they can do about it
What is failure-accepting student?
What is the need for competence?
Students who don't want to learn or look smart, but just want to avoid work
What is work-avoidant learners?
A person's sense of being able to effectively deal with a particular task
Students may engage in behavior that blocks their own success in order to avoid testing their true ability
What is self-handicapping?