PSY426H1 Lecture Notes - Motivation
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Clarifying achievement goals and their impact performance goals performance appraoch. And mental), denials: ability goals predicting deinial, beh. Different from study four in many ways: the goal items were used to predict motivation and performance in "real world" settings, level of sustained challenge, monitored students throughout semester. Allowed experimenters to see goal effects as they played out over time- both facilitative effects and their determinantal effects. Survey tracked students intrinsic motivation and performance at several points and final grades were obtained at the end of the semester. Data collected on intrinic motivation and study goals around the period of tests. Hypotheses: learning goals would be positively correlated with intrinsic motivation and grades. -- ability goals were expected to be associated with lower performance after multiple setbacks but not necessarily with lower performance after multiple setbacks. -- expected students who were doing well to experience a "boost" from strong ability goals. Measured at the beginning of the course.
