Achievement Motivation and Test Anxiety

  • b) Issues in Measurement
  • 2. Original static theory of achievement motivation

  • b) Fear of failure -- the pain of failure
  • c) Resultant tendency = tendency to engage in task for success + tendency to avoid failing + extrinsic tendencies
  • 3. Tests of original theory

  • b) Motivation, risk preference and persistence under failure
  • c) Revisions to Atkinson's theory:
  • 4. Dynamic theory

  • b) Original formalization -- the Dynamics of Action
  • c) Personality traits as rates of change in states
  • d) Revised dynamics of action
  • e) Computer simulation as a formal model of theory
  • f) implications of dynamic theory
  • 5. Theory of cumulative performance

  • b) effeciency
  • c) time spent is an increasing function of motivation