Educational Psychology

After studying this chapter, you should be able to:

• Discuss the importance to teachers of understanding motivation.
• Compare and contrast intrinsic motivation with extrinsic motivation.
• Describe the research on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.
• Discuss how motivation affects the development of exceptional abilities.
• Discuss how extrinsic rewards may undermine motivation.
• Describe the behavioral view of motivation.
• Describe the cognitive view of motivation.
• Describe the social learning view of motivation.
• Describe the humanistic view of motivation.
• Discuss how arousal level affects performance.
• Explain how teachers can create the optimal arousal levels in the classroom.
• Discuss why and how goals enhance motivation.
• Describe what makes goals effective.
• Discuss the importance of teacher feedback and teacher expectations.
• Describe Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
• Describe achievement motivation.
• Discuss self-determination and control.
• Describe attribution theory.
• Discuss how beliefs about one's abilities affect self-efficacy.
• Compare and contrast self-esteem and self-efficacy.
• Describe methods to motivate challenging students.