A Motivated Exploration of Motivation Terminology - Anitacrawley.net

22 MURPHY AND ALEXANDERTABLE 2—ContinuedDefinitionalclarity E/IAuthor/year Domain/task N Grade Term (C, O, R) DefinitionSchraw, Bruning, & Time mag. 154 Ugrad. Personal (individual) E Unique to the individual, topic specific, long lasting, andSvoboda (1995) article interest exists prior to encountering a particular textSituational interest E Common across individuals, short-lived, and elicitedwithin a particular contextIntrinsic motivation XInterest XSeifert (1995) Math 79 5th Performance (ego or E Learners seek to gain a favorable judgment of their comextrinsic)goal petenceMotivation (achieve- I(C) Goalment)Learning goal E Students. . .are interested in gaining competenceTask (mastery or intrin- E Learners are interested in mastery or competencesic) goalCompetence XAttribution I(C) Judgments of reasons for perceived success or failureSelf-efficacy XWork-avoidance goal E Trying not to work hardShell, Colvin, & Bru- Reading, 364 4th, 7th, Self-efficacy E Defined as confidence in one’s capability for organizingning (1995) writing 10th and implementing the cognitive, behavioral, or socialskills necessary for successful performance of a taskAttribution E Defined as one’s judgments about the causality of successor failure in achievement situationsTobias (1995) Biology 33 nursing Situational interest E Elicited by aspects of a situation, such as its novelty or51 Ugrad. intensity, and by the presence of human interest factorscontributing to the attractiveness of differenttypes of contentMotivation XTopic (individual) E Refers to people’s relatively enduring preferences for difinterestferent topics, tasks, or contextsIntrinsic motivation I(R) Deci & Ryan (1991)Interest X