Module 15: Cognitive Theories Flashcards
Focus on external rewards for their behavior
Extrinsic Motivation
Learning is the reward itself
Intrinsic Motivation
Students exhibit curiosity and persistence, and focus on mastery of knowledge and skills
Academic Intrinsic Motivation
Student’s expectation for success
Expectancy
Reasons for undertaking a task
Value
A judgment about one’s relative ability in one domain compared to the ability of other individuals and compared to one’s ability in other domains
Competency Belief
Satisfying interest, curiosity, or enjoyment
Intrinsic Value
The intrinsic importance of being good at a task for one’s own identity
Attainment Value
Extrinsic usefulness for meeting short-term and long-term goals
Utility Value
The reason for undertaking the task and the standard that individuals construct to evaluate their performance
Achievement Goal
What drives our behaviors and choices
Goal Orientation
Focus on improving intellectually, acquiring new skills and knowledge, and developing competence
Mastery-approach goals
A need to achieve and a fear of failure
Performance-approach goals
Avoiding situations in which they might fail to achieve mastery
Mastery-avoidance goals
Judging their competence relative to others
Performance-avoidance goals
Where we place the cause of the outcome
Locus
Wether we perceive the cause as being stable or unstable over time
Stability
Our personal responsibility for the cause of the success or failure
Controllability
Perceive ability as unstable and uncontrollable, they consider it to be ever changing
Incremental view of ability
Believe that ability is stable and uncontrollable, they see it as fixed and unchangeable
Entity view of ability
A motivation to avoid academic work
Work-avoidance orientation
Students who have experienced repeated failures attribute their failures to causes beyond their control
Learned Helplessnesss
Mental worry
Anxiety
The expense of engaging in the activity
Cost
Interpretations of events based on past performance and social norms
Casual Attributions
Growth mindset
Perceive ability as unstable and uncontrollable, they consider it to be ever changing
Fixed mindset
Believe that ability is stable and uncontrollable, they see it as fixed and unchangeable
