Sentence examples for motivational terms from inspiring English sources

If good intentions have a habit of paving the path to hell, then in Iraq, the very fact that the onset and conduct of the war continue to be debated in ideological and motivational terms should tell us everything we need to know about likely future successes.

Problems also face analyzing pleasure in motivational terms other than "desire" more closely tied to behavior.

The traditional approach to the illusion of control has been framed in motivational terms (e.g., Koenig, Clements, & Alloy, 1992; Langer, 1975; Thompson, Armstrong, & Thomas, 1998).

In motivational terms, neophilia can be defined as the attraction that an animal displays towards an object or place simply because it is novel, while neophobia is the aversion that an animal shows towards approaching a novel object or place (Greenberg, 2003).

He's right, but he's also doing himself no favors by denouncing the Bucs' youth when he was the one who coined the supposedly motivational term "youngry" before the season.

"The trip to Musina was incredibly moving and heartbreaking but also really motivational in terms of getting involved.

According to this theory, a motivational state termed cognitive dissonance is produced whenever beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours are inconsistent.

But it is useful to think about motivation in terms of the motivational goals of establishing task value, promoting mastery goals, promoting belonging, promoting emotion regulation, promoting expectancy for success, and promoting autonomy.

The purpose of the research was to determine experimentally whether the addition of features to enhance learner motivation and collaboration, termed motivational scaffolding, to the "traditional" distance learning design improved engagement, and performance, particularly among procrastinators.

Citing research on reward and motivation, Pessoa also proposes the dual competition model, which explains emotional and motivational processing in terms of their influence on competition processes at both perceptual and executive function levels.

The fact that all these labels refer to the same items illustrates a common challenge in educational psychology that may be termed "jingle-jangle fallacy", which refers to the problem of differentiating between the multitude of different motivational constructs and terms used in the literature (see Murphy and Alexander 2000 for a thorough review of motivational terminology).