Effects of task- and ego-achievement goals on information seeking during task engagement

作者: Ruth Butler

DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.65.1.18

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摘要: Two studies tested the proposal that information seeking is affected by achievement goals and stages of skill acquisition (D. N. Ruble & K. S. Frey, 1991). College students (N=188) worked on problems in a task- or an ego-goal condition could request task (best solutions), objective, normative, no after each. As expected, task-goal Ss requested more information, which predicted subsequent performance, normative mainly for later problems. Ego-goal made requests also early problems, were modified level

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