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Motivation

open access: yesEducational Psychology, 2019
Motivation, the psychological construct ‘invented’ to describe the mechanism by which individuals and groups choose particular behaviour and persist with it, has a history going back millennia in all cultures.
D. McInerney
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Motivation of medical students: selection by motivation or motivation by selection [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Medical Education, 2016
Medical schools try to implement selection procedures that will allow them to select the most motivated students for their programs. Though there is a general feeling that selection stimulates student motivation, conclusive evidence for this is lacking.
Rashmi A. Kusurkar   +6 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Data‐driven performance metrics for neural network learning

open access: yesInternational Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, EarlyView., 2023
Summary Effectiveness of data‐driven neural learning in terms of both local mimima trapping and convergence rate is addressed. Such issues are investigated in a case study involving the training of one‐hidden‐layer feedforward neural networks with the extended Kalman filter, which reduces the search for the optimal network parameters to a state ...
Angelo Alessandri   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incentives to Motivate [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
Abstract We present a model in which a motivator can take costly actions – or what we call motivational effort – in order to reduce the effort costs of a worker, and analyze the optimal combination of motivational effort and monetary incentives. We distinguish two cases.
Kvaløy, Ola, Schöttner, Anja
openaire   +5 more sources

The home electronic media environment and parental safety concerns: relationships with outdoor time after school and over the weekend among 9–11 year old children

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2018
Background Time spent outdoors is associated with higher physical activity levels among children, yet it may be threatened by parental safety concerns and the attraction of indoor sedentary pursuits.
Hannah J. Wilkie   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Acute aerobic exercise and attentional focus influence the self-positivity bias in emotional evaluation. Evidence from an experimental study

open access: yesOpen Psychology, 2022
The influence of aerobic exercise, as a possibly mood-enhancing experience, was investigated for its effect on emotional evaluation of self- vs. other-related emotional (e.g., my/his joy) or neutral (e.g., my/his notes) stimuli.
Meixner Friedrich, Herbert Cornelia
doaj   +1 more source

Decoding of Processing Preferences from Language Paradigms by Means of EEG-ERP Methodology: Risk Markers of Cognitive Vulnerability for Depression and Protective Indicators of Well-Being? Cerebral Correlates and Mechanisms

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2022
Depression is a frequent mental affective disorder. Cognitive vulnerability models propose two major cognitive risk factors that favor the onset and severity of depressive symptoms.
Cornelia Herbert
doaj   +1 more source

Role of Perceived Competence and Task Interest in Learning From Negative Feedback

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine the interactive effects of perceived competence and task interest on the cognitive and affective responses to negative feedback.
Dajung Daine Shin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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