TY - BOOK ID - 68255384 TI - Motivation and action AU - Heckhausen, Jutta AU - Heckhausen, Heinz PY - 2008 SN - 9780521852593 0521852595 9780511499821 9780521149136 9780511394720 0511394721 0511394071 9780511394072 9786611370466 6611370463 1107176379 1281370460 051139327X 051139196X 0511390769 0511499825 0521149134 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Motivation (Psychology). KW - Motivation (Psychology) KW - Action, Psychology of KW - Drive (Psychology) KW - Psychology of action KW - Psychology KW - Health Sciences KW - Psychiatry & Psychology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:68255384 AB - In this book Heckhausen and Heckhausen give an extensive and in-depth overview of the diverse lines of research in motivational psychology, in terms of its historical foundations, up-to-date conceptual developments and empirical research. The major classes of motivated behavior, such as achievement, affiliation and power, are addressed and the critical processes involved in motivation and volition are discussed in detail. Different conceptual and empirical lines of research, such as implicit/explicit motivation, intrinsic/extrinsic motivation/volition, causal attribution, childhood and lifespan development, education, personality and psychopathology are integrated and analyzed as to the common issues and phenomena they address, thus providing a most useful guideline for understanding debates in current motivational, educational and social psychology. ER -