PSYCH 124S Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Achievement Orientation, Psych, Al Pacino
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Motivation is a key variable in both learning and performance contexts. Physical and psychological factors beyond motivation influence behavior and must be considered. Some motivational factors are more easily influenced than others. Achievement motivation is a person"s orientation to strive for task success, persist in the face of failure, and experience pride in accomplishments (gill, 2000). Competitiveness is a disposition to strive for satisfaction when making comparisons with some standard of excellence in the presence of evaluative others (martens, 1986). Outcome goal orientation (or competitive goal orientation): comparing performance with and defeating others. Attributions: how people explain their successes and failures. Task (mastery) goal orientation: improving relative to one"s own past performances. Social goal orientation: judging competence in terms of affiliation with the group and recognition of being liked by others. People are motivated to feel worthy or competent. Feelings of competence and worth, as well as perceptions of control, determine motives. What achievement motivation says about high achievers.
