PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bernard Weiner, Julian Rotter, Intentionality

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Chris Motz

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Attribution theory: some are unpleasant, some good, some trivial, for events that are important (good or bad) we usually engage in a search for causality. One way of looking at why people engage in motivated behaviour. Attribution theory (shit happens, man: a (cid:498)theory of motivation(cid:499, events (cid:523)called (cid:498)outcomes(cid:499)(cid:524) happen to us all of the time. Called an (cid:498)outcome(cid:499) because something caused it to happen. September 26: expectancy of repetition (or attainment, value of future outcomes, weiner & colleagues applied this theory to academic motivation. Asking (cid:498)(ow can we increase student motivation to achieve success? (cid:499) Attribution theory & motivation: attributional retraining in the classroom. Attributional retraining (ar) is a therapeutic technique where students are taught to provide certain causal ascriptions for academic success & failure (and to avoid other causal ascriptions) (as demonstrated considerable promise for increasing students" motivation & achievement. Attribution theory & motivation: menec et al. (1994); perry & struthers (1994)