Motivation 1
Procrastinating, setting unattainable goals, and underachieving are all (negative) strategies to avoid damaging or reducing this.
What is self-worth?
The belief that a person is born with a specific amount of talent or intelligence and there isn't much one can do to change it.
What is a fixed mindset?
SMART stands for this (in terms of goals)
What is Specific, Measurable, Action-Oriented, Realistic, and Timely (or time-bound)?
When you exaggerate the degree or intensity of a problem.
What is magnifying?
A person who wants to avoid looking stupid at all costs has this type of goal orientation.
What is performance-avoidance?
This theory was developed by Eccles and Wigfield. It states that a student's beliefs about their abilities to complete a task along with their value of the task influences their motivation for the task.
What is expectancy-value theory?
This mindset is fostered when teachers and caregivers emphasize autonomy, effort, and challenge seeking.
What is a growth mindset?
A person with this goal orientation cares more about how well they understand the material than how well they do on the exam.
What is a mastery goal orientation?
When you focus on the negative details while ignoring all the positive aspects of a situation.
What is filtering?
As a person's stress increases due to procrastination, so does this other 7 letter word with two S's.
What is illness?
Drive for action (in general), academically influenced by sociocultural factors, internal factors, and classroom factors.
What is motivation?
One's beliefs about their abilities to complete a task.
Whis is self-efficacy?
When a person accepts their predetermined future without much thought.
What is identity foreclosure?
A response to a specific event in the environment that causes worry, fear, or frustration.
What is stress? (as opposed to anxiety)
Praise such as "Wow, you are so smart/talented!" fosters this type of mindset in students.
What is a fixed mindset.
Future-oriented images of self that individual expect and hope to become as well as are afraid of becoming.
What are possible selves?
Name at three sociocultural factors influencing academic motivation.
Parent/teacher expectations, social expectations or stereotypes, access to resources, ect.
Internal factors that are foundational in developing goal directed behavior, a type of "compass" for life
What are values?
Awareness and acceptance of our thoughts, feeling, and bodily sensations and the surrounding environment.
What is mindfulness?
The best combination of dimensions of our attributions for motivation.
What are internal, unstable, and controllable factors.
"That professor is terrible. I can't understand anything, so that is why I failed" would be an example of an external version of this.
What is attribution?
The three dimensions of our attributions, according to Weiner (1986).
What are locus, stability, and controllability.
Identity crisis is in progress and identity is not yet resolved.
What is Moratorium?
Suggests that bodily sensations occur first and then the mind evaluates those bodily sensations to select an appropriate mental response.
What is the James-Lange theory? (you don't need to memorize names - that is why this is a 500 point question
The ideal amount of self-efficacy one should have.
Self-efficacy that is calibrated with one's actual ability! (But if you can't be exact, it's better to have slightly higher than lower self-efficacy!)