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Author:   Donald R. Brown ,  Joseph Veroff
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9780387964447

ISBN 10:   0387964444
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   12 December 1986
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

One Development of the Motivation for Particular Activity Scale.- Discussion.- Two In the Atkinson Tradition: The Motivational Function of Emotion.- Attributions Related to Affects.- Feelings Related to Action.- General Summary.- Three Conscious and Unconscious Processes in the Psychology of Motivation.- Four Motivational Chaos: A Simple Model.- The Concepts of Reflexivity and Interdependence.- A Recursive Model of Achievement Motivation.- Applications to Atkinson's Theory of Achievement Motivation.- Level of Aspiration: Some Preliminary Results.- Five Mathematical Model of the Behavioral Stream Measurement.- Six Uses of the Computer in Motivational Psychology.- Simulation-Generated Research Hypotheses.- Computer Presentation of Stimuli.- Modelling Empirical Results.- Computer Measure of Resultant Achievement Motivation.- Test-Retest Reliability.- Experimentally-Created Computer Anxiety.- Structural Differences Among the Experimental Situations.- Advantages and Disadvantages of Computer Use.- Seven Motivation and Efficiency of Cognitive Performance.- Strength of Motivation: The Implications of the Dynamics of Action.- Task Variables Affecting Efficient Performance.- Inefficiency as an Inappropriate Tradeoff.- Summary and Conclusions.- Eight Contextualism and Human Motives.- A Motive is Different at Different Points in the Life-cycle.- Sub-types of Motives.- Interaction of Motives: A Typology as a Way to Assess Motives.- Quality of Motives and Values Considered Simultaneously.- Conclusion.- Nine Human Values, Valences, Expectations and Affect: Theoretical Issues Emerging from Recent Applications of the Expectancy-Value Model.- Values and Actions.- Unemployment and Depressive Affect.- The Role of Affect.- The Nature of Expectations.- Ten Future Time Perspective: A Cognitive-Motivational Concept.- Theoretical Definitions.- Operationalizations of Future Time Perspective.- Future Time Perspective in Experimental Psychology.- FTP and Cognitive Theories of (Achievement) Motivation.- Affective Attitude Toward the Future.- Summary and Conclusion.- Epilogue.

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