... focus Adolescence Intentional self-regulation Selection optimization compensation model Motivation Imagine two high school students who have been studying for the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT), an exam required for many US college and scholarship applications. Student A focused on the day...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Aging Decision making Motivation Commentary Human Development 2011;54:368 375 DOI: 10.1159/000334943 How to Model Age-Related Motivational Reorientations in Risky Choice...

...Eugene Subbotsky A model of two different types of human motivation – pragmatic and non-pragmatic – is proposed. The two have a common metatheoretical foundation in a rationalist world view. Within the rationalist framework, however, two opposing conceptions exist – humans as machines and humans...

...Robert J. Sternberg; Todd I. Lubart This article presents an investment theory of creativity. The theory comprises 6 resources for creativity – intellectual processes, knowledge, intellectual style, personality, motivation, and environmental context. Creative performance results from a confluence...

..., and may therefore have been more motivationally significant. Thus, young respondents were likely to say my possible self is to be happy . Older re­ spondents. in contrast, said to stay indepen­ dent', or to continue to drive . With respect to feared selves, younger respondents feared dying or having...

...Nancy Wadsworth Denney In an attempt to facilitate the problem-solving performance of elderly individuals by manipulating peripheral, noncognitive variables, a series of four studies was undertaken. In the first study, the effect of both increasing motivation and giving practice was investigated...

... into a general theory of action. Harris criticizes action theory for neglecting motivations that remain outside of consciousness, and argues that individual goals or intentions are comprehensible only retrospectively and in the context of social discourse. 23 12 2009 © 1984 S. Karger AG, Basel 1984...

...Stein Erik Ulvund The problem to what extent cognition and motivation in early infancy can be identified as two separate processes in operation is discussed. Based on published literature and previous research, it is pointed out that traditionally cognitive behaviour has been looked upon...

...(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Complexity Curiosity Cognition Sex differences Response modes Exploration Motivation Human Develop. 17: 54-73...