Introduction The term ‘motivation’ in this study encompasses three separate concepts. Arnold and Silvester (2005) usefully characterise these as direction, effort and persistence. Direction relates to what an individual is trying to achieve, effort describes how hard a person is trying, and persistence examines how long a person will persevere at a task. Assumptions about[…]
For the purpose of this essay when we discuss ‘attention’ we are referring to selective attention. This is loosely when we are exposed to more information than we can process at once so a procedure is needed to selectively attend to one set of information while ignoring others. Hence selective attention pays an important role[…]