Psychology Annotated Bibliography

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Psychology Annotated Bibliography
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Psychology Annotated Bibliography
Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (2008). Facilitating optimal motivation and psychological well-being
across life's domains. Canadian Psychology, 49(1), 14-23. Retrieved from
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Deci is a psychology professor at Rochester University and credited for his works on the
intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and basic psychological needs. On the other hand, Ryan is a
psychology professor in Australia and the same time a research professor at Rochester. The two
scholars are known for their contribution to developing the self-determination theory for
motivation and personality. They are known for different other publications that they have
individually done in the field of psychology. This work builds is a follow up on the theory of
self-determination that the two authors developed to understand the differences between
autonomous motivation and controlled motivation. According to them, previous theories have
regarded motivation as a unitary concept varying primarily in amount, which means that more
motivation yields more results. However, their theory people are self-motivated and active, eager
and vital, curious and interested to achieve success. The work distinguished intrinsic and
extrinsic motivation, analyses autonomous and controlled motivation by focusing on its
consequences, and lastly studies the concept of autonomy and how it applies to different
contexts. The outcome is a differentiation of autonomous motivation comprising of intrinsic
motivation and well-internalized extrinsic motivation as a result of controlled motivation with
external and interjected regulation.
Graham, S., & Weiner, B. (2012). Motivation: Past, present, and future. In K. R. Harris, S.
Graham, T. Urdan, C. B. McCormick, G. M. Sinatra, J. Sweller (Eds.) , APA educational

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psychology handbook, Vol 1: Theories, constructs, and critical issues (pp. 367-397).
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/13273-013 retrieved
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Graham is an education of professor at the University of California with interests in
academic research and social development. Weiner is a scholar of social psychology and is
credited for his works on attribution theory that focusses on how emotions and motivation affect
academic success. His role was to find differences in people’s achievement needs to understand
the issues that they face. When the competencies of the two scholars are put together, the
outcome is the best match that represents education attainment research. The resource addresses
the contributions of psychologists in understanding the concept of motivation. This is an analysis
of the behaviour patterns of people and the reasons why they behave the way they behave by
finding the reasons that direct, sustain and energize their behaviour.
By studying achievement behaviour as a sequence of initiated, directed and sustained
behaviour that is eventually terminated, individuals choose certain patterns of behaviour that
enable them to work on the required activities. To make the reader understand the topic well, the
authors provide a historical overview that differentiates between motivation and learning. This is
followed by a presentation of the contemporary approaches to motivation based on grand
theories presented by other researchers. This chapter is limited by the fact that there are
challenges in tracing the paths from grand theories to contemporary research since there are no
clearly marked paths to follow when reviewing literature. However, the resource offers an on the
general issues revolving around motivation research.