Explain the major developmental changes in motivation and identify gender differences in motivation.

What will be an ideal response?


The answer should identify young children as beginning with mastery orientations and incremental beliefs about ability, high expectancies, and choosing tasks based on intrinsic value. Elementary through high school shifts toward performance orientation. Adolescents emphasize mastery less and believe ability is fixed, having lower competency beliefs, expectancies, and intrinsic values for academic tasks. The answer should also identify girls as having an entity view and rate their ability lower in math and science relative to boys.

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_____ is best known for suggesting that culture is passed on to the next generation through social interactions between children and their elders

a. Vygotsky b. Piaget c. Browlby d. Freud

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