Re: Intrinsic Motivation - #1

["March L. Jacques" <march@execpc.com>]

At 08:27 AM 09/03/1999 MST, Anton wrote:
>Haywood ... starts with a graphic summary of several recent studies comparing
>children's performance on the Metropolitan Achievement Test using standard
>scores.  The children were divided into groups defined as primarily
>Extrinsically Motivated (EM) and Intrinsically Motivated (IM) children.  The
>separation was made using a simple test which asks children to make choices
>between extrinsic and intrinsically motivated situations. ... [Haywood
notes] there have been found
>reliable individual differences in "motivational orientation" as early as
>three years of age.


Thank you for sharing Haywood's study, Anton. The idea that a motivational
orientation presents at so early an age surprised me. I had assumed that as
a personality trait, motivational orientation was more a matter of nurture
than of nature. I would like to know more about the test used to identify
the orientation. Is it possible to summarize it or to indicate where I can
find a summary? 

Thanks again,
March

Moderator's $0.02 USD:  Look at the "Forces of Destruction" -- few are limited
to us older folk...  ;-) (Chapter 6 in TNE - page numbers vary between editions)
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