Physical Education A-Level
Motivation
What Motivation means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Motivation
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Reference: AQA
The drive to act, which drops when stable and uncontrollable attributions after failure lower expectation of future success.
Topics that use Motivation
- Attribution theory (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Application to success and failure in sport
- Attribution
- Attribution retraining
- Attribution, emotion and expectancy
- Coach and teacher influence on attributions
- Controllability
- General learned helplessness
- Goal setting
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