Sentence examples for the expectancy from inspiring English sources
noun
Expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something
Although the expectancy manipulation reduced patients' reported expectations for the development of nausea, the occurrence of nausea was not reduced.
The expectancy of this crowd is huge.
"For us there is not the expectancy this year.
And with the Giants, you don't know if the expectancy is there".
But the expectancy that this thick-textured, restless music captures is unsettling.
This illusion results partially from the expectancy of the person doing the lifting.
The expectancy-value theory of motivation suggests that the expectation of success positively influences the learner's perception of learning importance.
A second major approach to achievement motivation rejects the expectancy-value formulation and analyzes instead the attributions that people make about achievement situations.
Task value is central to the expectancy-value motivational theory [17, 19].
These types of models also exist within psychology, such as the expectancy-value theory of Eccles et al. (1983).
According to Graham and Weiner ([1996]), motivation can be conceptualized in terms of the "expectancy-value" framework.
