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Latta, R. Michael; And Others – 1976
This study (N=160 males) examined the cognitive and behavioral effects of overt success feedback on subjects high and low in resultant achievement motivation (RAM). The cognitive effects of overt success feedback were investigated by requesting attributions to effort, ability, luck, and task difficulty concerning performance on a digit-symbol…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Experimental Psychology, Feedback, Higher Education

Bleich, David – College Composition and Communication, 1975
When we communicate we are participating in a relationship with another person we value. (JH)
Descriptors: Audiences, Communication (Thought Transfer), English Instruction, Essays
Wilson, Patti; Rhymer, Katrina; Landis, Julie; Skinner, Christopher – 2001
A project was undertaken to investigate the effects of tootling on social skills, self-concept, interpersonal relations, and classroom environment. The tootling intervention reinforces students for engaging in acts of kindness. Two fifth-grade classes participated in the study over a seven-week period. The Social Skills Rating System, the…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Classroom Environment, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades

Samaan, Makram K.; Parker, Clyde A. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1973
The research reported here supports existing research demonstrating the greater effectiveness of behavioral counseling over traditional methods. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Career Counseling, College Students, Counselors

Dion, Kenneth L.; Miller, Norman – Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1973
The present study attempts to assess whether black children's evaluations of their own achievement efforts are indeed acquired in response to prior adult approval or disapproval. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Elementary School Students, Emotional Response

Joe, Victor Clark – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anxiety, Individual Characteristics, Motivation

Taylor, Cie; White, Karl R. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1982
A comparison of three treatments (training students to take tests, training teachers to administer tests, and reinforcing reading test score improvement) showed that group achievement scores more accurately indicate what students know if motivated to do their best in tests and take tests from teachers trained to administer standardized tests.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Motivation, Primary Education, Reinforcement
Morris, Arlene M. – Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, 1981
Practice and repetition are necessary for the acquisition of motor skills. Effective practice depends on: (1) a clearly defined goal or purpose; (2) a carefully structured, gamelike progression of practice opportunities; and (3) the provision of feedback or knowledge of the results of the motor performance. (JN)
Descriptors: Drills (Practice), Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Feedback

Zuckerman, Miron; And Others – Journal of Research in Personality, 1979
Using task choice to measure information-seeking behavior, two studies examined situational determinants of choice among anagram tests varying both in difficulty and diagnosticity (information about one's ability). Subjects took a preliminary test before choosing. Study 1 manipulated pretest performance level. Study 2 varied payment for pretest…
Descriptors: College Students, Diagnostic Tests, Difficulty Level, Information Seeking

Thompson, Ted – Learning and Instruction, 1997
The term self-worth protection describes a tendency on the part of certain students to underachieve and at other times to perform well on academic tasks of similar difficulty. The development and maintenance of self-worth protection may be attributed to messages implicit in unproductive evaluative feedback used by teachers. (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Feedback, Low Achievement, Motivation

Notz, William W. – American Psychologist, 1975
Summarizes and discusses findings on two hypotheses predicting interaction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation: extrinsic rewards are those which provide satisfaction independent of the actual activity itself and are controlled by someone other than the employee, whereas intrinsic rewards are those over which the employee has a high degree…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Motivation, Motivation Techniques, Psychological Studies
Freibergs, Vaira; Douglas, Virginia I. – J Abnorm Psychol, 1969
Research supported by U.S. Public Health Grant No. 293-60 to D.O. Hebb and Grant No. 298-3980 of the Medical Research Council of Canada to Virginia I. Douglas. Part of a PhD thesis submitted to McGill University (Friebergs, 1965).
Descriptors: Attention Span, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Educational Environment
Lonky, Edward; Reihman, Jacqueline – 1980
This study tests the hypothesis that individual differences in locus of control orientation may mediate elementary school students' responses to positive verbal feedback. A total of 30 kindergarten through fourth grade subjects were assessed for locus of control orientation using the Bialer Children's Locus of Control Questionnaire. To establish a…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Feedback, Individual Differences
DeLamarter, William A.; Krepps, Patrice E. – 1980
Intrinsic motivation and self-reinforcement can be used identically to explain behavioral persistence in the absence of external reward. Yet the relationship between these concepts has not been adequately explored. Since intrinsic motivation appears to be dependent on an interesting task and self-reinforcement independent of task, it was…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Environmental Influences, Evaluation Criteria
Espinosa, Renato – 1968
Eighty-six Negro and Mexican-American children were divided into experimental and control groups in a study designed to learn the effects of an 8-week summer Head Start program on the achievement motive of these children. The study was based on McClelland's theory of achievement motive and the models of Atkinson and Aronson. Children were…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Blacks, Family Influence, Mexican Americans