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Chapter 8 Flashcards

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Motivation

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Initiation, direction, intensity, persistence, and quality of a behaviour

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Incentive

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Encourages people to take action and behave in a specific way

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Goals

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Short and long term objectives

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Strategies

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Methods used to achieve goals

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Student Achievement Retention Project (STAR)

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Improved academic standing of women. Persisted after incentives ended

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Growth mindset theory

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Belief that intelligence and abilities can be developed through hard work

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What traits do individuals with a growth mindset have

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  • embrace challenges
  • persist in face of setbacks
  • learn from criticism
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Fixed mindset

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Believe ability is innate/unchangable

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Flow

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Being “in the zone”, task is perfectly suited to person’ skills (high perceived challenge and high perceived skill)

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Affective goals

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Emotional/physical goals

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Cognitive goals

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Intellectual curiosity

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Subjective organization goals

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Spiritual awareness

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Self-assertive goals

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Taking leadership to feel sense of achievement

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Self-assertive goals

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Taking leadership to feel sense of achievement

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Integrative social relationship goals

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Ethical and social obligations

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Task goals

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learn and continue practicing skills

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Learning goals

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Help focus on mastering/understanding content

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Performance goals

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Focus on final outcome

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Work avoidant goals

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Reducing time/effort dedicated to a task

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true or false, academic success is a strong predictor of career excellence

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false

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3 features of work relevant in educational settings

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  1. skill variety
  2. task identity (complete)
  3. task significance
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Psychological striving

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stressor -> greater self-confidence and enhanced health afterwards

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What is the opposite of flow?

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Stress

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What kind of shape does law of performance show

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inverted u-shape

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