After studying this chapter, you should be able to answer the following questions:
- What are intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and motivation to learn?
- How is motivation conceptualized in the behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, and sociocultural
perspectives?
- What are the possible motivational effects of success and failure, and how do these effects
relate to beliefs about ability?
- What are the roles of goals, interests, emotions, and beliefs about the self in motivation?
- What external factors can teachers influence that will encourage students' motivation to learn?
- What is your strategy for teaching your subject to an uninterested student?
