- Entity / Helpless orientation
- Incremental / Mastery orientation

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Haverford College in Pennsylvania

Achievement motivation outlines how someone is motivated to perform a task.  The two types of motivators are learning goals, in which people are motivated by the prospect of learning new information, and performance goals, in which people strive to show their competence of information.

Achievement Motivation

Siegler, R., Saffran, J. R., Eisenberg, N., Deloache, J., &amp; Gershoff, E. (2017). How Children Develop (5th ed.). Worth Publishers, Inc.

How Children Develop Textbook

Self-Attributions Underlying Achievement Motivation

A definition of attunement “is a kinesthetic and emotional sensing of others knowing their rhythm, affect and experience by metaphorically being in their skin, and going beyond empathy to create a two-person experience of unbroken feeling connectedness by providing a reciprocal affect and/or resonating response’. 


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