Term
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Definition
| the direction and intensity of effort |
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Term
| What are the views of motivation? |
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Definition
Participant- or trait-centered view
Situation-centered view
Interactional view |
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Term
| what are the main motives for involvement in sports? |
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Definition
Improving skills
Having fun
Being with friends
Experiencing thrills and excitement
Achieving success
Developing fitness |
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Term
| what are the main motives for involvement in exercise? |
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Definition
Joining:
Health factors
Weight loss
Fitness
Self-challenge
Feeling better
Continuing:
Enjoyment
Liking instructor
Liking type of activity
Social factors |
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Term
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Definition
| How people explain their successes and failures |
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Term
| Basic attribution categories |
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Definition
| Stability, locus of causality, locus of control |
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Term
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Definition
| is a disposition to strive for satisfaction when making comparisons with some standard of excellence in the presence of evaluative others (SOCIAL comparison) |
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Term
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Definition
| is a person’s orientation to strive for task success, persist in the face of failure, and experience pride in accomplishments (SELF comparison) |
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Term
| Achievement Motivation Influences |
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Definition
Choice of activities
Effort to pursue goals
Intensity of effort
Persistence in the face of failure |
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