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Peer reviewedDweck, Carol S. – American Psychologist, 1986
Educationally relevant conceptions of motivation are difficult to establish. A research based model of motivational processes can show how goals for cognitive tasks shape reactions to success and failure and how they influence the quality of cognitive performance. This model can aid in designing programs to change maladaptive motivational…
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Style, Goal Orientation
Download full textMeyer, William J. – 1970
Discussion centered on three sets of factors that may influence the variability observed in "concept identification" (concept formation and discrimination learning) studies: stimulus characteristics, incentives employed, and subject characteristics. Stimulus characteristics are described in terms of the number of dimensions…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation, Correlation
