Attribution Theory Of Motivation Essay

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Introduction Motivation in learning is something which cannot be ignored, without any motivation a teacher cannot make the students learn the subject. Motivated students show more interest and pay more attention to the teacher while teaching.
We can motivate students with curiosity in learning. People are naturally curious. Students like enjoying new things and seek new experiences. For example, ask students question or create problem situation rather than presenting statements of facts. This increases student’s interest and curiosity to learn more about the topic.
Curiosity enhances learning by increasing student’s interest. Without having any interest students cannot understand what teacher is teaching. Curiosity is a motive that is intrinsic …show more content…

Where ever we go we need safety weather it is school, house, shop...Etc. For example, Richa, age 11 was afraid to go to school because a boy in her class was constantly calling her names embarrassing her. So she pretended to be sick and stayed home.
Physiological needs are basic needs of human. Breathing, food, water, sleeps…Etc. For example, While learning how to scuba dive, David’s air tank malfunctioned, causing the instructions to take emergency action. Attribution …show more content…

Some reasons people think they fail or success is effort, ability, luck and task difficulty. There are two types of beliefs in attribution theory Success and failure or internal attribution or external attribution. In internal attribution people infer that event or a person’s behavior is due to personal factors such as traits, abilities or feelings. External attribution means people infer that the person’s behavior is due to situational facts. When it’s always ability and effort, for an example when a student pass in exam it’s always the students ability and effort, when a student fails he thinks that’s the teacher can’t teach them well or the paper was very difficult else his bad