Implications of the current theory of achievement motivation for research and performance in the classroom

✍ Scribed by Bernard Weiner

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1967
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 666 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0033-3085
• DOI: 10.1002/1520-6807(196704)4:2<164::aid-pits2310040214>3.0.co;2-1

✦ Synopsis

This paper has described techniques which can be utilized to change behavior and promote conceptual growth of seriously disturbed children. One of these allows a successful use of 1 :14 staff :patient ratio by being designed to maximize communication of explicit expectations which spells out appropriate behavior for the child. We feel this is an approach which raises some alternative techniques to changing behavior from the more traditional conditioning or psychoanalytic models.

Though we have spoken about positive and negative sanctions, we have not stated when which is applied. We have purposefully omitted this because mechanical application of positive and negative sanctions cannot be adhered to in a slavish manner. Rather, it is the result of the nurse's sensitivity and intuitive understanding of each child's changing needs.