Motivation and Self-Regulation Across the Life Span

Bys: Carol S. Dweck and Jutta Heckhausen

Book Overview

In the past two decades, an approach to the study of motivation has emerged that focuses on specific cognitive and affective mediators of behavior, in contrast to more general traits or motives. This social-cognitive approach grants goal-oriented motivation its own role in shaping cognition, emotion and behavior, rather than reducing goal-directed behavior to mere information processing or to an enactment of a personality type. This book adds a developmental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521101484
• ISBN13: 9780521101486
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"