Download or read book Effects of Objective Difficulty Versus Subjective Probability of Success on Level of Performance written by Terri Shelton and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of Goal Difficulty and Presentation Sequence on Performance Subjective Probability of Success and Self efficacy written by Laura L. Kollar and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Laboratory Investigation of the Effects of Goal Difficulty and Subjective Probability of Success on Task Performance written by Anthony Joseph Mento and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Motivation and Action written by Jutta Heckhausen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition provides translations of all chapters of the most recent fifth German edition of Motivation and Action, including several entirely new chapters. It provides comprehensive coverage of the history of motivation, and introduces up-to-date theories and new research findings. Early sections provide a broad introduction to, and deep understanding of, the field of motivation psychology, mapping out different perspectives and research traditions. Subsequent chapters examine major themes of human motivation, including achievement, affiliation, and power motivation as well as the fundamentals of motivation psychology, such as motivated and goal oriented behaviors, implicit and explicit motives, and the regulation of development. In addition, the book discusses the roles of motivation in three practical fields: school and college, the workplace, and sports. Topics featured in this text include: Social Relationships and its effects on sexual or intimacy motivation. Conscious and unconscious motivators of behavior. Drives and incentives in the fields of achievement, intimacy, sociability and power. How the biochemistry and structures of our brain shapes motivated behavior. How to engage in intentional goal-directed behavior. The potential and limits of motivation and self-direction in shaping our lives. Motivation and Action, Third Edition, is a must-have resource for undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers in the fields of motivation psychology, cognitive psychology, and social psychology, as well as personality psychology and agency. About the Editor: Jutta Heckhausen is the daughter of Heinz Heckhausen, who published "Motivation and Action” as a monograph in 1980 and who died in 1988 just before the 2nd edition came out. Dr. Heckhausen received her Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow with a dissertation about early mother-child interaction, and did her Habilitation in 1996 at the Free University of Berlin with a monograph about developmental regulation in adulthood. Dr. Heckhausen worked for many years at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, conducting research about the role of motivation in lifespan development. She is currently a professor of psychology at the University of California, Irvine.
Download or read book Expectations and Actions written by Norman T. Feather and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1982, this book examines the current status of expectancy-value models in psychology. The focus is upon cognitive models that relate action to the perceived attractiveness or aversiveness of expected consequences. A person’s behavior is seen to bear some relation to the expectations the person holds and the subjective value of the consequences that might occur following the action. Despite widespread interest in the expectancy-value (valence) approach at the time, there was no book that looked at its current status and discussed its strengths and its weaknesses, using contributions from some of the theorists who were involved in its original and subsequent development and from others who were influenced by it or had cause to examine the approach closely. This book was planned to meet this need. The chapters in this book relate to such areas as achievement motivation, attribution theory, information feedback, organizational psychology, the psychology of values and attitudes, and decision theory and in some cases they advance the expectancy-value approach further and, in other cases, point to some of its deficiencies.
Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Industrial Work Organizational Psychology 3v written by Deniz S Ones and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 3173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this best-selling Handbook presents a fully updated and expanded overview of research, providing the latest perspectives on the analysis of theories, techniques, and methods used by industrial, work, and organizational psychologists. Building on the strengths of the first edition, key additions to this edition include in-depth historical chapter overviews of professional contexts across the globe, along with new chapters on strategic human resource management; corporate social responsibility; diversity, stress, emotions and mindfulness in the workplace; environmental sustainability at work; aging workforces, among many others. Providing a truly global approach and authoritative overview, this three-volume Handbook is an indispensable resource and essential reading for professionals, researchers and students in the field. Volume One: Personnel Psychology and Employee Performance Volume Two: Organizational Psychology Volume Three: Managerial Psychology and Organizational Approaches
Download or read book Goal Concepts in Personality and Social Psychology written by Lawrence A. Pervin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is behavior motivated? And if so, can it be motivated by the anticipation of future events? What role does cognition play in such motivational processes? And, further, what role does motivation play in ongoing cognitive activity? Questions such as these provide the foundation for this book, originally published in 1989. More specifically, the chapters in this book address the question of the utility of goals concepts in studying motivation and social cognition.
Download or read book A Theory of Goal Setting Task Performance written by Edwin A. Locke and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Effect of Goal Specificity on the Relationship Between Expectancy and Task Performance written by Stephan J. Motowidlo and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred seventy-five male undergraduates solved arithmetic problems under one of three experimental conditons of objective probability of task success and one of two conditions of 'goal specificity', i.e., subjects had either a 'specific' goal of some explicit number of problems to solve or an 'ambiguous' goal of beating some proportion of other subjects in their experimental groups. The relationship between the objective probability of task success and performance was found to be curvilinear in both goal conditions such that maximum performance occurred at the intermediate probability level. There was also a significant relationship between the subjects' expressed subjective expectancies of success (which were only slightly related to the objective probabilities) and performance. (Author).
Download or read book Subjective Probability written by George Wright and published by . This book was released on 1994-11 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This overview of subjective probability ranges from discussion of the philosophy of axiom systems through studies in the psychological laboratory to the real world of business decision-making.
Download or read book The Effect of Subjective Probability of Success and Success and Failure on Task Resumption written by Geri Lynn Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two independent studies were undertaken to test predic tions concerning resumption of tasks following induced success and failure experiences. Predictions for both stud ies were derived from a theory of achievement motivation formulated by J.W. Atkinson. Ss for Study I were selected on the basis of their scores on a probability-of-success ques tionnaire which required Ss to estimate their chances of success in several task situations. It was predicted that, in a forced-choice situation, Ss with high questionnaire scores (high expectancies of success) would tend to resume the task on which they had just experi enced failure rather than the task on which they had just ex perienced success. It was further predicted that Ss with low expectancies of success would tend to resume the task on which they had just experienced success. The results obtained for Study I revealed that almost all Ss chose to resume the task on which they had succeeded. This lack of variability in resumption choices made a clear- cut interpretation of the results impossible: the results could be regarded as negative evidence for Atkinson's theory, on the one hand, or the findings could be considered in terms of some methodological defect in the present study, on the other hand. The latter possibility was regarded as the most plausible one. In order to establish a general difficulty level for the experimental task among the Study I Ss, the instructions to Ss had included references to the performance level attained by a high-ability norm group on the same task. It was felt that this use of a high ability norm group may have obliterated the anticipated effect of success and failure upon Ss' expectancies of success. In an attempt to clarify this possibility, three differ ent norm groups of varying ability levels were used in Study II. It was expected that Ss working under conditions in which a low-ability norm group was used, would tend to have initially high expectancies of success for the experimental task. It was further expected that Ss working under a high-ability norm group would tend to have initially low expectancies of success. It was predicted that Ss working under the high-ability norm group would tend to resume the success task in a forced- choice situation, while Ss working under a low-ability norm group would tend to resume the failure task. Resumption choices made by these Ss did not, however, support the predictions. Nearly all Ss chose to resume the task on which they had experienced success. The lack of expected findings in both Studies I and II were discussed in terras of several other possible methodologi cal defects. Perhaps the most plausible explanation of the results centers around the ego-involvement variable; the possibility that Ss were not ego-involved in these two stud ies appears likely. If Ss were not ego-involved, then deriva tions from Atkinson ' s' t heory were not tested in these two studi es. Suggestions for modifications of the present design and for additional research in this area were offered.
Download or read book ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN DECISION PROCESSES written by JAMES C. NAYLOR and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Motivational Science written by Edward Tory Higgins and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A current collection of articles that define the field of motivational science.
Download or read book Rhythms of Academic Life written by Peter J. Frost and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1996-07-16 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable source book offers guidance, support and advice for those contemplating or involved in academic careers. The contributions provide rich, personal, sometimes poignant and often humorous accounts of shared and unique experiences of those in the world of academia.
Download or read book Self related Cognitions in Anxiety and Motivation written by R. Schwarzer and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on anxiety and motivation has witnessed substantial progress in recent years in developing innovative perspectives and applying advanced psychometric tools. The most important contributions were made by cognitively oriented psychologists who have related the information processing view to anxiety and motivation. The organized knowledge about oneself and the storage, processing and retrieval of information concerned with one's attitude and behavior strongly influences the way people think, feel and act. Therefore, self-referent thoughts play a major role as a cognitive component in anxiety and motivation. It is the idea of this book to integrate different lines of thinking in the field of anxiety and motivation by relating both topics to self-focussed attention, self-concept and self-evaluation in achievement contexts as well as in social contexts.
Download or read book PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNERS AND LEARNING written by T. Manichander and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
