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Boskovic, Irena – Educational Psychology, 2020
The educational system today often relies on incentives in order to motivate students. However, it might also encourage students to engage in deceptive behaviour (e.g. malingering) in order to reach certain benefits. Hereby, we investigated whether students would intentionally fabricate symptoms (i.e. malinger) when confronted with a…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Behavior, Deception, Physical Health
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Alyousif, Raneem; Alsuhaibani, Zainab – English Language Teaching, 2021
Demotivating factors are one of the sources that can reduce students' motivation toward language learning. This study investigated language learning demotivating factors among high school EFL students. It also explored the educational implications and recommendations for promoting EFL students' motivation from teachers' perspectives. A total of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Motivation, Second Language Learning
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van Hulst, Branko M.; de Zeeuw, Patrick; Bos, Dienke J.; Rijks, Yvonne; Neggers, Sebastiaan F. W.; Durston, Sarah – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2017
Background: Changes in reward processing are thought to be involved in the etiology of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as well as other developmental disorders. In addition, different forms of therapy for ADHD rely on reinforcement principles. As such, improved understanding of reward processing in ADHD could eventually lead to…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Task Analysis, Reinforcement, Therapy
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Oah, Shezeen; Lee, Jang-Han – Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 2011
The failures of previous studies to demonstrate productivity differences across different percentages of incentive pay may be partially due to insufficient simulation fidelity. The present study compared the effects of different percentages of incentive pay using a more advanced simulation method. Three payment methods were tested: hourly,…
Descriptors: Wages, Incentives, Productivity, Reinforcement
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Rickard, J. F.; Body, S.; Zhang, Z.; Bradshaw, C. M.; Szabadi, E. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2009
This experiment examined the relationship between reinforcer magnitude and quantitative measures of performance on progressive-ratio schedules. Fifteen rats were trained under a progressive-ratio schedule in seven phases of the experiment in which the volume of a 0.6-M sucrose solution reinforcer was varied within the range 6-300 microliters.…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Correlation, Reinforcement, Response Rates (Questionnaires)
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Tien, Flora F. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2007
This paper aims at exploring how faculty research behaviour changes before, during, and after promotion. Testing research hypotheses generated from behavioral reinforcement theory and an alternative claim on the learning effect of familiarity with publishing norms, the study collects career history data and longitudinal records on faculty research…
Descriptors: Incentives, Reinforcement, Behavior Change, Foreign Countries