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Golan, Shari; Graham, Sandra – 1990
To study the effects of motivation on cognition, 55 fifth- and sixth-grade students were randomly assigned to 3 motivational treatment groups: (1) ego-involved (ability oriented); (2) task-involved (mastery oriented); and (3) control (no orientation). The ego-involvement treatment attempted to make subjects feel that their abilities on the tasks…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Educational Strategies, Elementary School Students