Motivation
This concept is usually defined as an internal state that arouses, directs, and maintains behaviour.
What is motivation?
A model of seven levels of human needs, from basic physiological requirements to the need for self-actualization.
What is Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs?
Goals that are specific, moderately difficult, and can be reached in the near future.
What kind of goals are the most motivating?
A person’s sense of being able to deal effectively with a particular task.
What is self-efficacy?
In Cole's example, students were given a range of options that set out valuable tasks for them, but also allowed them to follow personal interests.
What are bounded choices?
Incentives, rewards, and punishments are attempts to motivate students by extrinsic means.
What are behavioural approaches to motivation?
The desire to have our own wishes determine our actions rather than external rewards or pressure.
What is the need for autonomy?
A personal intention to improve abilities and learn, no matter how performance suffers.
What is a mastery goal?
A way of understanding how you think and learn.
What are epistemological beliefs?
Raquel’s example about practicing her trumpet in order to become more connected to her jazz band community was an example of which “need” theory?
What is self-determination theory?
With this approach, students’ inner resources, such as a sense of competence, self-esteem, autonomy, and self-actualization, are encouraged.
What are humanistic approaches to motivation?
Maslow's four lower-level needs, which must be satisfied first.
What are deficiency needs?
Students should have accurate feedback about their progress toward goals and they must accept the goals set.
How can goal setting be made effective in the classroom?
The phenomenon that causes people to believe that events in their lives are mostly uncontrollable.
What is learned helplessness?
The three intersecting categories of goals that were at play in Melina’s example about her Chinese students.
What are mastery, performance and social goals?
These theories suggest that motivation to reach a goal is the product or our expectations for success and the value of the goal to us.
What are expectancy x value theories?
The source of this viewpoint on motivation is Extrinsic (Giving out stickers for a good grade)
What is Behaviourism / What is the behavioural approach to motivation?
Patterns or beliefs about goals related to achievement in school.
What are Goal Orientations?
This view supports the idea that you can improve your abilities. It is associated with greater motivation.
What is an incremental view of ability?
My heart was racing, I had sweaty palms, my vision became funny, I was frantically searching for the right answers I knew were stored in my brain, but access was completely blocked. It felt like a one-way road to failure.
What is anxiety?
Some psychologists have explained motivation in terms of Personal Traits/ Individual characteristics, others see motivation as this.
What is a state/temporary situation.
Must, ought, have to, should.
What are words that undermine motivation?
A Type of learner that feels successful when they do not have to try hard, when the work is easy, or when they can goof off.
What are work-avoidant learners?
When students behave in ways that undermine their own success to avoid true evaluation.
What is self-handicapping?
The reason Bailee felt the need to learn French to join the community.
What is intrinsic motivation?