theory of achievement motivation

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• achievement motivation theory — A theory that establishes a relationship between personal characteristics, social background, and achievement. A person with a strong need for achievement tends to exhibit such characteristics as: • regarding the task as more important than any… …   Big dictionary of business and management

• motivation — motivational, adj. motivative, adj. /moh teuh vay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or an instance of motivating. 2. the state or condition of being motivated. 3. something that motivates; inducement; incentive. [1870 75; MOTIVE + ATION] * * * Factors… …   Universalium

• Motivation — For other uses, see Motivation (disambiguation). Timeline of theorists about student motivation Motivation is the driving force by which humans achieve their goals. Motivation is said to be intrinsic or extrinsic …   Wikipedia

• Motivation — Der Begriff Motivation bezeichnet das auf emotionaler bzw. neuronaler Aktivität (Aktivierung) beruhende Streben nach Zielen oder wünschenswerten Zielobjekten und ist somit eine Art Triebkraft für Verhalten.[1] Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Geschichte 2… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Achievement gap in the United States — An achievement gap refers to the observed disparity on a number of educational measures between the performance of groups of students, especially groups defined by gender, race/ethnicity, ability, and socioeconomic status. The achievement gap can …   Wikipedia

• motivation — The mental processes that arouse, sustain, and direct human behaviour. Motivation may stem from processes taking place within an individual (intrinsic motivation) or from the impact of factors acting on the individual from outside (extrinsic… …   Big dictionary of business and management

• achievement — The successful accomplishment of, or performance in, a socially defined task or goal. Talcott Parsons (in Social Theory and Modern Society, 1967) suggests that modern societies use indices of achievement examination credentials or performance in… …   Dictionary of sociology

• Achievement ideology — is the belief that one reaches a socially perceived definition of success through hard work and education. In this view, factors such as gender, race/ethnicity, economic background, social networks, or neighborhoods/geography are secondary to… …   Wikipedia

• Motivation in second-language learning — Motivation is often defined as the psychological quality that leads people to achieve a goal. For language learners, mastery of a language may be a goal. For others, communicative competence or even basic communication skills could be a goal. In… …   Wikipedia

• Need for achievement — (N Ach) refers to an individual s desire for significant accomplishment, mastering of skills, control, or high standards. The term was first used by Henry Murray[1] and associated with a range of actions. These include: intense, prolonged and… …   Wikipedia

• Strain theory (sociology) — In criminology, the strain theory states that social structures within society may encourage citizens to commit crime. Following on the work of Émile Durkheim, Strain Theories have been advanced by Merton (1938), Cohen (1955), Cloward and Ohlin… …   Wikipedia