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The effect of manipulating performance expectancies on achievement motivation and task performance

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Creator: 

Lefave, Michelle

Responsibility: 
Michelle Lefave
Start Date: 
1995
End Date: 
1995
Date Range: 
1995 April 02
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1.4 MB of textual records (PDF)

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Audience: Undergraduate. -- Dissertation: Thesis (B. A.). -- Algoma University, 1995. -- Submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements for PSYC 4105. -- Includes figures and tables. -- Contents: Literature review / Thesis.

Bibliographic Information
Publication: 
Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.:
Standard No: 
OSTMA-PSYC-Lefave-Michelle-19950402
Physical Location
rec_shelfloc: 
2013-064-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Container Number: 
001
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This study investigated the effect of manipulating performance expectancies on achievement motivation and task performance. Sixty participants, drawn from two post secondary institutions, completed the NachNaff (Lindgren, 1976) test of achievement motivation, followed by an anagram task. They were then told that their performance was either above, below or almost exactly average for the anagram that they had chosen. Participants again completed the NachNaff scale and a different set of anagrams. It was hypothesized that high expectancies would cause an increase in both achievement motivation and subsequent performance, and low expectancies would cause a decrease in both achievement motivation and subsequent performance, as compared to initial testing. Results revealed that achievement motivation was altered in the directions predicted, whereas no significance differences was found performance.

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