PS374 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Motivation, Procrastination, Inflection
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Impossible to achieve or difficulty symbolizes importance of achievement: achievement goal theory, mastery goals: focus on increasing competence vs performance goals: focus on demonstrating the skill and ability of a student, self-determination theory, competence, autonomy, relatedness/belonging, motivational components. Attention must be paid to changing the limiting beliefs about differential ability to learn and self-defeating teaching methods that follow from such beliefs weinstein, 1993. Self-fulfilling prophecy (merton, 1948: a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior. The pygmalion effect: the finding that the expectations held by teachers about their students influence student- teacher interactions in such a way that students often perform in ways consistent with the expectations. Input: teachers provide more opportunities, choices and challenging work to students they expect to do well, output, teachers interact more with students expected to do well, giving the students more chance to respond.
