What is Motivation?
What are the three times of Motivation?
Extrinsic motivation, Intrinsic motivation, Amotivation
Define Self-actualization
fulfilling one's potential.
What are Goal orientation?
Patterns of beliefs about goals related to achievement in school.
Fill in the equation
Motivation = (blank) + (blank)
an individual's expectation of reaching a goal + the individual’s value of the goal
Fixed mindset assumes?
fixed mindset that assumes that abilities are stable, uncontrollable, set traits.
Define Amotivation
Amotivation- a complete lack of any intent to act- no engagement at all.
What is the Need for relatedness?
The desire to belong and to establish close emotional bonds and attachments with others who care about us.
What is a Mastery goal?
A personal intention to improve abilities and learn, no matter how performance suffers.
If High EXPECTATION + High VALUE = (?)
Low EXPECTATION + Low VALUE = (?)
Low EXPECTATION + High VALUE = (?)
= Strong MOTIVATION
= ZERO MOTIVATION
= Low or No MOTIVATION (vice versa)
Growth mindset suggests?
growth mindset that suggests abilities are unstable, controllable, and improvable.
Define Intrinsic motivation
Intrinsic motivation- Motivation associated with activities that are their own reward.
What is the Cognitive evaluation theory?
A theory that suggest that events affect motivation through the individual’s perception of the events as controlling behavior or providing information.
What are Social goals?
A wide variety of needs and motivates to be connected to others or part of a group.
When cost is added to the equation of expectancy + value, what must we consider?
We must consider value in relation to the cost of pursuing the goal.
Define epistemological beliefs
What students/people believe about knowledge and learning will influence their motivation and the kinds of strategies that they use.
Define Extrinsic motivation
Extrinsic motivation- Motivation created by external factors such as rewards and punishments.
What are Deficiency needs?
Maslow's four lower-level needs, which must be satisfied first before higher-level needs can be addressed.
Define Work-avoidant learners
Students who don't want to learn or to look smart, but just want to avoid work.
What are the Five Possibilities of Task Value?
importance, interest, utility, pleasing others, and cost.
What are the three dimensions to Benard Weiner's theory?
Locus - location of the cause whether internal or external to the person.
Stability - whether the cause of the event is the same across time and in different situations.
Controllability - whether the person can control the cause.
What are the five basic questions that psychologist studying motivation have focused on?
What choice do people make about their behavior?
How long does it take to get started?
What is the intensity or level of intensity or level of involvement in the chosen activity?
What causes someone to persist or to give up? What is the person thinking and feeling while engaged in the activity?
What is the Hierarchy of needs?
Maslow's model of seven levels of human needs, from basic physiological requirements to the need of self-actualization.
What do goals do?
Goals motivate people to act in order to reduce the discrepancy between “where they are” and “where they want to be.”
Define value
Value is an individual’s belief about whether a task or assignment is generally useful, enjoyable, or otherwise important.
What are the three kinds of motivational sets: mastery oriented, failure avoiding, and failure accepting
mastery oriented, failure avoiding, and failure accepting