New Directions in Measures and Methods, Volume 12 (Advances in Motivation and Achievement)
Contributors: Paul R Pintrich (Editor); Martin L. Maehr (Editor)
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: November 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780762308194
Subjects: Cognitive theory; Science/Mathematics; Motivation; Psychology; Education / Teaching; Educational Psychology; Education / Educational Psychology; Physiological Psychology
First sentence: When McClelland, Atkinson, Clark and Lowell published their groundbreaking monograph The achievement motive in 1953, scientific research on human motives such as the needs for achievement, affiliation, or power was off to a great start as a respectable, promising and flourishing branch of psychology.