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Human Motivation (Section II "Expectancy-Value Theories")
by Bernard Weiner. 486 pgs.

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Preface

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Chapter One: Introduction

Section I: Need Reduction Theories

Chapter Two: The Psychoanalytic Theory of Motivation

Chapter Three: Drive Theory

Section II: Expectancy-Value Theories

Chapter Four: Kurt Lewin's Field Theory

Chapter Five: Achievement Theory

Chapter Six: Social Learning Theory and Personal Responsibility

Section III: Mastery and Growth Theories

Chapter Seven: Attribution Theory

Chapter Eight: An Attributional Theory of Behavior

Chapter Nine: Humanistic Theory and Personal Constructs

Section IV: Conclusion

Chapter Ten: Overview and Concluding Remarks

Bibliography

Author Index

Subject Index
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Contemporary Learning Theories (Chap. 9 "Expectancy Theory in Animal Conditioning")
by Stephen B. Klein, Robert R. Mowrer. 322 pgs.

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Contemporary Learning Theories: Instrumental Conditioning Theory And the Impact of Biological Constraints on Learning

Preface

Contributors

I Theories of Pavlovian Conditioning

1: Traditional Learning Theory and the Transition to Contemporary Learning Theory

2: Learning and Performance in Pavlovian Conditioning: Are Failures of Contiguity Failures of Learning Or Performance?

3: Contingency and Relative Associative Strength

4: Attention, Retrospective Processing and Cognitive Representations

5: Perceptual and Associative Learning

6: Evolution of a Structured Connectionist Model of Pavlovian Conditioning (AESOP)

7: Sign-Tracking: The Search for Reward

II Current Status of Traditional Learning Theory

8: The Case for a Return to a Two-Factor Theory of Avoidance: The Failure of Non-Fear Interpretations

9: Expectancy Theory in Animal Conditioning

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Subject Index
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Instructional-Design Theories and Models ("Expectancy" begins on p. 415)
by Charles Reigeluth. 494 pgs.

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About This Book

Suggestions for Reading This Book

Foreword

Reference

Unit I Instruction: What the Discipline is Like

1: Instructional Design: What is It and Why is It?

2: A Metatheory of Instruction: A Framework for Analyzing and Evaluating Instructional Theories and Models

3: Descriptive and Prescriptive Theories of Learning and Instruction: An Analysis of Their Relationships and Interactions

Unit II Models and Theories of Instruction

4: Contributions of Gagné and Briggs to a Prescriptive Model of Instruction

5: A Behavioral Approach to Instructional Prescription

6: The Algo-Heuristic Theory of Instruction

7: Instructional Strategies Based on the Structural Learning Theory

8: A Cognitive Theory of Inquiry Teaching

9: Component Display Theory

10: The Elaboration Theory of Instruction

11: Motivational Design of Instruction

Unit III Commentary

12: Is Instructional Theory Alive and Well?

Concluding Remarks

Author Index

Subject Index
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What Teachers May Do to Influence Student Motivation, in Journal of General Education
by Dawson R. Hancock. 9 pgs.

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Using Expectancy Theory to Assess Group-Level Differences in Student Motivation: A Replication in the Russian Far East, in Issues in Accounting Education
by Steven V. Campbell, Tatyana Baronina, Barbara P. Reider. 12 pgs.

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Recruiting, Retaining, and Motivating the Federal Workforce ("Adjustment: A Component of Expectancy Theory" begins on p. 57 and "The Utility of Expectancy Theory" begins on p. 109)
by Gail Johnson. 166 pgs.

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Attracting and maintaining a highly motivated federal workforce is the topic of this study, which focuses on the Presidential Management Intern Program. Johnson examines the program and its interns from 1978-1984, citing their current employment status; discussing the met and unmet expectations that led the interns to either stay in federal service or to leave; and drawing larger conclusions that can be applied to building a federal workforce in other areas. Among the subjects addressed are the viability of the internship model as a recruitment vehicle and the role played by the denigration of public service.

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1: Introduction

2: The Presidential Management Intern Program

Notes

3: Where Have All the PMIs Gone?

Notes

Conclusions

4: The Effect of Met and Unmet Expectations

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5: Reasons to Stay in or Leave the Federal Government

Conclusions

6: The PMIs in Context: Federal Employee Attitudes

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7: Internships and Expectations: How Well Do They Fit?

Notes

8: Lessons Learned: Implications for the Federal Government

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

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Expectancy Theory and Police Productivity in DUI Enforcement, in Law & Society Review
by Stephen D. Mastrofski, R. Richard Ritti, Jeffrey B. Snipes. 36 pgs.

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Leadership and Motivation: The Effective Application of Expectancy Theory, in Journal of Managerial Issues
by Robert G. Isaac, Wilfred J. Zerbe, Douglas C. Pitt. 15 pgs.

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Anxiety Sensitivity: Theory, Research, and Treatment of the Fear of Anxiety (Chap. 2 "The Expectancy Theory of Fear, Anxiety, and Panic: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis")
by Steven Taylor. 370 pgs.

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Foreword

Preface

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I: Conceptual Foundations

1: Theoretical Approaches to the Fear of Anxiety

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2: The Expectancy Theory of Fear, Anxiety, and Panic: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

3: The Sensitivity Theory of Aberrant Motivation

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II: Psychometric Foundations

4: Measuring Anxiety Sensitivity

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5: Dimensions of Anxiety Sensitivity

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6: Anxiety Sensitivity and Emotional Disorders: Psychometric Studies and Their Theoretical Implications

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7: Anxiety Sensitivity and the Structure of Personality

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III: New Research on Basic Mechanisms: Causes and Consequences of Anxiety Sensitivity

8: Anxiety Sensitivity and Information-Processing Biases for Threat

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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9: Biological Aspects of Anxiety Sensitivity: Is It All in the Head?

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10: Prospective Evaluations of Anxiety Sensitivity

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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IV: New Directions in Anxiety Sensitivity Research

11: Anxiety Sensitivity in Children

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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12: Anxiety Sensitivity and Chronic Pain: Empirical Findings, Clinic Implications, and Future Direction

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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13: Anxiety Sensitivity and Substance Use and Abuse

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14: The Impact of Treatment on Anxiety Sensitivity

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V: Conclusions

15: Anxiety Sensitivity: Progress, Prospects, and Challenges

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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Subject Index
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Valence Effects in Reasoning about Evaluative Traits, in Merrill-Palmer Quarterly
by Gail D. Heyman, Jessica W. Giles. 24 pgs.

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Determinants of the Magnitude of Goal Valence: The Interactive Effects of Need, Instrumentality, and the Difficulty of Goal Attainment, in Basic and Applied Social Psychology
by Paul M. Biner, David M. Hua. 22 pgs.

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Perceived Instrumentality and Academics: The Link to Task Valuing, in Journal of Instructional Psychology
by Raymond B. Miller, Teresa K. Debacker, Barbara A. Greene. 11 pgs.

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Organizational Behavior: Foundations, Theories, and Analyses (Chap. 8 "Theories of Motivation Rooted in Learning Theory")
by John B. Miner. 888 pgs.

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The book begins with a treatment of the role of science and the nature of theory and research. A discussion of the early origins and history of organizational behavior follows. This is the most comprehensive coverage of how organizational behavior emerged and grew. It presents and evaluates the first generation theorists, whose work began during the first 20 years. The subject matter covered is motivation, leadership, and organizational decision making. The institutional culture of organizational behavior is discussed and a vision for the future of the field is stated. Here the early history and the evidence from the theories are brought together in an effort to assess the identity of organizational behavior and where it might be headed.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

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Part I: Foundations and Origins

Chapter 1: Theory, Research, and Knowledge of Organizational Behavior

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Chapter 2: Multidisciplinary Origins of Organizational Behavior

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Chapter 3: Multidisciplinary Origins of Organizational Behavior

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Chapter 4: Establishing the Ground Against Which Organizational Behavior Became Figure

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Chapter 5: Uncertainty and the Genesis of Theory

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Part II: First-Generation Theories: Motivation

Chapter 6: Theories of Motivation Rooted in Personality Theory

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Chapter 7: Motivation Theories That Relate to Job Enrichment

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Chapter 8: Theories of Motivation Rooted in Learning Theory

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Chapter 9: Theories of Motivation Rooted in Social Psychology

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Part III: First-Generation Theories: Leadership

Chapter 10: Leadership Theories Built on Motivational Constructs

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Chapter 11: Participative Leadership Theories

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Chapter 12: Further to the Contingency Approach in Leadership Theory

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Part IV: First–generation Theories: Systems Concepts of Organization

Chapter 13: Organizational Level Theories with Roots in Group Dynamics and Group Leadership

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Chapter 14: Comprehensive Psychological Open Systems Theories

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Chapter 15: Sociological Open Systems Theories

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Chapter 16: The Technological Imperative

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Chapter 17: Differentiation and Integration in the Contingency Theory of Organization

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Part V: First-Generation Theories: Bureaucracy-Related Concepts

Chapter 18: Theory and Research That Remain Close to the Weberian Origins

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Chapter 19: Theoretical Variants on the Bureaucratic Theme

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Chapter 20: Goal Congruence Theory and the Route to Organization Development

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Chapter 21: The Mix of Organization Development and Leadership

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Part VI: First-Generation Theories: Organizational Decision Making

Chapter 22: Theories of Decision Process

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Part VII: Second-Generation Theories:

Chapter 23: Theories of Behavior in Organizations and of Attribution Processes

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Part VIII: Second-Generation Theories: Leadership

Chapter 24: Implicit Leadership Theories and Substitutes for Leadership

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Chapter 25: Charismatic and Transformational Theories

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Part IX: Second-Generation Theories: Concepts of Organization

Chapter 26: Resource Dependence, Organizational Ecology, and Neoinstitutional Theories

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Part X: Second-Generation Theories: Organization Decision Making

Chapter 27: Image Theory

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Part XI: From Generation to Generation

Chapter 28: Institutional Culture of Organizational Behavior and a Vision

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Subject Index

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