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Weiner, Bernard – Educational Psychologist, 2010
The history of ideas guiding the development of an attribution-based theory of motivation is presented. These influences include the search for a "grand" theory of motivation (from drive and expectancy/value theory), an attempt to represent how the past may influence the present and the future (as Thorndike accomplished), and the…
Descriptors: Motivation, Attribution Theory, Incentives, Achievement Need
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De Houwer, Jan; Teige-Mocigemba, Sarah; Spruyt, Adriaan; Moors, Agnes – Psychological Bulletin, 2009
Implicit measures can be defined as outcomes of measurement procedures that are caused in an automatic manner by psychological attributes. To establish that a measurement outcome is an implicit measure, one should examine (a) whether the outcome is causally produced by the psychological attribute it was designed to measure, (b) the nature of the…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Psychology, Evaluation Methods, Behavior Standards