cognitive‐evaluation theory n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
...‐evaluation theory n. Another name for the cognitive-appraisal theory...
cognitive evaluation theory Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
... evaluation theory A theory dealing with the effect of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation . It assumes that intrinsically motivated behaviour is affected by a person's innate need to feel competent and self-determining in dealing with the environment. The theory asserts that there are two main ways extrinsic rewards affect intrinsic motivation. First, the reward may have a controlling affect by being perceived as the primary reason for participating in an activity. Secondly, a reward may have an informational aspect, which affects the...
cognitive-evaluation theory
1 Thessalonians Reference library
Philip F. Esler and Philip F. Esler
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...research, have the potential to throw light on this absorbing picture of the future dating to the very early stages of the Christ-movement. First, within social-identity theory (a sub-area of social psychology—cf. 1 thess c.5–8), a group's distinctive orientation towards the future can help foster among the members a cognitive sense of belonging to the group, and also nourish the evaluative and emotional dimensions of membership. In other words, the members tell themselves who they are—and in a very positive way—in relation to where they are going. A striking...
Rethinking Islam Today Reference library
Mohamed Arkoun
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...Age of a new thought, since the 1950s). Before we move ahead in the search for an unfettered way of thinking Islam today, it is worth noting some theories on the medieval system of intelligibility as it is shown in Ghazzali and Ibn Rushd's discussion. 1. Both thinkers accept the cognitive priority of revealed truth in the Qur'an. Reason has to be submitted totally to this clearly formulated truth (Ghazzali) or to be elaborated as a coherent...
Class Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...to a society like eighteenth-century England, which experienced sharp social conflict but where the contesting parties remained within a mental horizon dominated by the gentry and did not have a clear or sustained conception of conflicting class interests within their cognitive system. More recently, the issue has resurfaced in the form of whether a language of class is indispensable for expressing a consciousness of class, especially when it is clear that radicals and oppositionists, even between 1789 and 1839 , frequently structured their...
cognitive-appraisal theory
self-determination theory
information aspect
controlling aspect
active audience theory
Guilford's cube
estrangement-effect
extrinsic motivation
film theory
metacognition
National Foundation for Educational Research
emotion n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... n. Any short-term evaluative, affective, intentional, psychological state, including happiness, sadness, disgust, and other inner feelings. See also affect , Cannon–Bard theory , cognitive-appraisal theory , iaps , James–Lange theory , mirror neuron , personal construct theory , primary emotions . Compare mood . emotional adj . [From Latin e - away + movere, motum to move + - ion indicating an action, process, or...
extrinsic motivation Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
...money, and trophies. Extrinsic motivation may encourage a person with a low motivation for success, or one with a high motivation to avoid failure, to take part in an achievement situation, contrary to what is expected from the McClelland–Atkinson model . Compare cognitive evaluation theory...
controlling aspect Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
...aspect The extent to which extrinsic rewards affect an athlete's perception of what controls his or her behaviour; it is an important component of cognitive evaluation theory . Rewards that encourage athletes to attribute their participation to external causes can reduce internal motivation . Compare information aspect...
