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Positive education is an approach to education that draws on positive psychology 's emphasis of individual strengths and personal motivation to promote learning. Unlike traditional school approaches, positive schooling teachers use techniques that focus on the well-being of individual students. [1] Teachers use methods such as developing ...
Motivational interviewing ( MI) is a counseling approach developed in part by clinical psychologists William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick. It is a directive, client-centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence. Compared with non-directive counseling, it is more focused and goal ...
John William Atkinson developed the expectancy–value theory in the 1950s and 1960s in an effort to understand the achievement motivation of individuals. [ 1] In the 1980s, Jacquelynne Eccles expanded this research into the field of education. [ 1] According to expectancy–value theory, students' achievement and achievement related choices ...
Cognitive evaluation theory (CET) [1] is a theory in psychology that is designed to explain the effects of external consequences on internal motivation.Specifically, CET is a sub-theory of self-determination theory that focuses on competence and autonomy while examining how intrinsic motivation is affected by external forces in a process known as motivational "crowding out."
Motivation is relevant in many fields and affects educational success, work performance, consumer behavior, and athletic success. Motivation is an internal state that propels individuals to engage in goal -directed behavior. It is often understood as a force that explains why people or animals initiate, continue, or terminate a certain behavior ...
Avolition. Avolition or amotivation as a symptom of various forms of psychopathology, is the decrease in the ability to initiate and persist in self-directed purposeful activities. [ 1][ 2] Such activities that appear to be neglected usually include routine activities, including hobbies, going to work or school, and most notably, engaging in ...
Mathematically, positive feedback is defined as a positive loop gain around a closed loop of cause and effect. [ 1][ 3] That is, positive feedback is in phase with the input, in the sense that it adds to make the input larger. [ 4][ 5] Positive feedback tends to cause system instability. When the loop gain is positive and above 1, there will ...
Positive mental attitude (PMA) is the philosophy of finding greater joy in small joys, to live without hesitation or holding back our most cherished, held in high esteem, and highest personal virtues and values. Empirical research suggests that individuals who engage in positive self-talk and maintain a mindful approach to their internal ...