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The anatomy of achievement motivation /
The Anatomy of Achievement Motivation focuses on the study of individual differences in motivations, including the determinants of specific motives and methods of assessing motive strength. The book first offers information on content analysis and evaluative dispositions, as well as the theory of th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Indeterminado |
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New York :
Academic Press,
1967.
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| Colección: | Personality and psychopathology ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Content analysis
- Early research
- Theory of the thematic apperception method
- Experimental method
- Validation
- Reliability
- Chapter 3. Evaluative dispositions (value attitudes)
- Indicators
- Area of generalization
- Sociocultural frames of references and their change over historical time
- Value systems and subsystems
- Chapter 4. Important dimensions of experience
- Focus of the person-environment relationship
- Time perspective and the nature of the experience of time
- Levels of reality
- Chapter 5. Conflict
- Expectation of failure
- ii. Risk-taking
- Resolution of conflict after failure
- Conflicts with other motives
- Chapter 6. The general structure of goals and performance
- Chapter 7. Foreperiod: valence and motive arousal
- Discrepancy between a present and a future state
- Psychic distance between a present and a future state
- Chapter 8. Goal setting and level of aspiration
- Definitions
- Results and theoretical review
- Relationship of goal setting to motivation
- Chapter 9. The performance period
- Activation
- Feedback about success and failure
- Endurance and persistence
- Chapter 10. The postperformance period
- Release from the task
- Zeigarnik effect
- Retrospective judgment of success
- Chapter 11. Accomplishments
- Motivation and intelligence
- Achievement in school and college
- Other types of accomplishment
- Chapter 12. Origin and development of achievement motivation
- Precursors and first appearance
- General course of development
- Individual differences: parental influences
- Effects of family structure
- Effects of the sociocultural milieu
- Changes in adulthood
- Chapter 13. Concluding remarks.