All glossaries
Motivation & Self-Regulation
Motivation is what makes an activity worth doing to us. Self-regulation is how we direct our behavior over time, including when something else becomes more appealing. The gap between wanting an outcome and taking the necessary action is a central problem here.
The entries cover intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, goals, confidence, self-control, and the intention-action gap. They also examine why people persist, give up, or struggle to begin. This is a broader subject than willpower: the activity itself, a person's abilities, and the conditions around them all deserve attention.
Definitions
- Actualization
- Construal level theory
- Coping Mechanisms
- Disinhibition
- Drive Reduction Theory
- Dual Self Model
- Ego Depletion
- Extrinsic Motivation
- Fixed mindset
- Fresh Start Effect
- Future Orientation
- Goal Gradient
- Grit
- Growth Mindset
- Humanistic Theory
- Impulse Control
- Impulsivity
- Incentivization
- Intention Action Gap
- Intrinsic Motivation
- Learned helplessness
- Locus of control
- Mindset
- Motivating Uncertainty Effect
- Motivational crowding out
- Opponent Process Theory
- Optimal Arousal Theory
- Overjustification Effect
- Positive Psychology
- Precommitment
- Proactive Behavior
- Regulatory Focus Theory
- Resilience
- Self-Actualization
- Self Efficacy
- Self-Esteem
- Self-Perception
- Self-Reflection
- Self-Regulation
- Temporal construal theory