Educational Psychology: Learning & Cognition

  Explain how your character's motivation aligns with the hierarchical ideas of goal complex.  For example, how does your Character's reason(s) for goal pursuit (such as wanting to please others—i.e., introjected motivation) impact his/her specific goals (e.g., such as mastery avoidance or performance approach)?  My character’s reasoning behind her goal pursuit (protection of her child and revenge on oppressors) impacts her goals in that if she fails, she will be faced with the reality that her current living condition is permanent. Her hope that things can and will return to a normal state is what keeps her going despite insurmountable odds. Her various goals align with different aspects of motivational theory in that some are mastery goals and some are performance based. When she is learning the governmental systems that oppress her in order to break them down from the inside, she is working from a mastery goal, knowing that the only way to succeed is to have flawless perform

Explain how your character's motivation aligns with Self-Determination Theory, Organismic Integration Theory, or Cognitive Evaluation Theory First describe the theory , then explain how aspects of the theory played into the motivation of your Character .  For example, you can explain Cognitive Evaluation Theory and then describe how your Character's intrinsic motivation was supported by perceptions of competence, autonomy, and positive relationships, and how these were supported within his/her environment.  Cognitive Evaluation Theory Cognitive Evaluation Theory investigates the effect of external factors on intrinsic motivation. “Cognitive Evaluation Theory asserts that all external events have both a controlling aspect and an informational aspect. The theory also presumes that people have psychological needs for autonomy and competence… It is the controlling aspect of an external event that affects the person’s need for autonomy, whereas it is the informational aspect of an

Explain how your character's motivation aligns with the value component. Describe the value(s) that drive your Character's motivation. Explain how the value(s) played into the motivation of your Character.  For example, how did your Character's values change over time and how did these influence his/her goal striving over time?  In the Handmaid’s Tale series, June Osbourne’s motivation is ever changing, based on the evolution of her values and priorities. Within the Expectancy-Value model, a person’s expectancy (belief in skills, expectation of success, responsibility, self-efficacy) and values (goals, reasons, incentives, personal values, intrinsic & extrinsic goals) combine to predict an individual’s level of motivation. My character’s motivation aligns with the value component in this example in that the value she places on motherhood and her responsibility to protect her daughter are at the driving force behind her actions.  While the protection of her child is one