TEST 2 Flashcards
ATTRIBTUION THEORY
EXPLORE LEARNERS BELIEFS AS TO WHY THEY DO WELL OR POORLY IN CERTAIN TASKS
INTRINSIC MOTIVATION
NATURAL TENDENCY TO SEEK AN CONQUER TASKS
EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION
ENGAGEMENT IN ACTIVITY TO RECEIVE AWARDS OR AVOIDS PUNISHMENT
COMPETENCE
PROTECT OUR SELF WORTH
COGNITIVE EVAL
HOW REWARDS ARE PERCIEVED IS KEY IN DETERMINING WHETHER INTERNAL MOTIVATION IS GOOD OR BAD
MOTIVATIONAL CLIMATE
STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE PERCIEVED COMPETENCE
-HELP WITH PROGRESS AND SEEING RESULTS
REINFORCEMENT
USE OF REWARD AND PUNISHMENT.
-WHICH INCREASE OR DECREASE PERFORMANCE
POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT
REWARD AND NURTURE GOOD BEHAVIOR
-WHICH WILL INCREASE DESIRED RESULTS
LEARNED HELPLESSNESS
A condition in which people feel that they have no control over their failures, and that failure is inevitable.
FIXED MINDSET
In a fixed mindset students believe their basic abilities, their intelligence, their talents, are just fixed traits. They have a certain amount and that’s that, and then their goal becomes to look smart all the time and never look dumb.
GROWTH MINDSET
In a growth mindset students understand that their talents and abilities can be developed through effort, good teaching and persistence. They don’t necessarily think everyone’s the same or anyone can be Einstein, but they believe everyone can get smarter if they work at it.
ATTENTION FOCUS
Attention is the cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things.
DRIVE THEORY
is a theory that attempt to define, analyze or classify the psychological drives. A drive is an “excitatory state produced by a homeostatic disturbance”,[2] an instinctual need that has the power of driving the behaviour of an individua
INVERTED U THEORY
theory of arousal that considers that optimal performance occurs when the performer reaches an optimal level of arousal.
INDIVIDUAL ZONE OF OPTIMAL FUNCTIONING
postulates the functional relationship between emotions and optimal performance, and aims to predict the quality of upcoming performance with respect to the pre-performance emotional state of the performer.