FYF - Intelligence Applied: Identifying Learning and Motivation Theories

The first step of this research assignment is to identify a motivation theory that you find interesting or credible.

Use this helpful website to identify Motivation Theories.

Or pick a motivation theory from the list below and look it up in the Credo Reference.  Identify a major researcher associated with the theory. 

• Acquired Needs Theory
• Activation Theory
• Affect Perseverance
• Attitude-Behavior Consistency
• Attribution Theory
• Cognitive Dissonance
• Cognitive Evalution Theory
• Consistency Theory
• Control Theory
• Disconfirmation bias
• Drive Theory
• Endowed Progress Effect
• ERG Theory
• Escape Theory
• Expectancy Theory
• Extrinsic Motivation
• Goal-Setting Theory
• Intrinsic Motivation
• Investment Model
• Opponent-Process Theory
• Placebo Effect
• Positive Psychology
• Reactance Theory
• Self-Determination Theory
• Self-Discrepancy Theory
• Side Bet Theory
• The Transtheoretical Model of Change

Next, brainstorm how your motivation theory might help you learn. If you're having trouble with this, you might want to identify an learning theory from the list below.  You can find more information about each theory that may help you decide if you identify with the theory either from instructionaldesign.org/theories or from learning-theories.com.

• ACT-R (John Anderson)
• Adult Learning Theory (P. Cross)
• Algo-Heuristic Theory (L. Landa)
• Andragogy (Malcolm Knowles)
• Anchored Instruction (John Bransford)
• Aptitude-Treatment Interaction (L. Cronbach & R. Snow)
• Attribution Theory (B. Weiner)
• Cognitive Dissonance Theory (L. Festinger)
• Cognitive Flexibility Theory (R. Spiro)
• Cognitive Load Theory (J. Sweller)
• Component Display Theory (M. David Merrill)
• Conditions of Learning (Robert Gagne)
• Connectionism (Edward Thorndike)
• Constructivist Theory (Jerome Bruner)
• Contiguity Theory (Edwin Guthrie)
• Conversation Theory (Gordon Pask)
• Criterion Referenced Instruction (Robert Mager)
• Double Loop Learning (C. Argyris)
• Drive Reduction Theory (C. Hull)
• Dual Coding Theory (A. Paivio)
• Elaboration Theory (C. Reigeluth)
• Experiential Learning (C. Rogers)
• Functional Context Theory (Tom Sticht)
• Genetic Epistemology (J. Piaget)
• Gestalt Theory (M. Wertheimer)
• GOMS (Card, Moran & Newell)
• General Problem Solver (A. Newell & H. Simon)
• Information Pickup Theory (J.J. Gibson)
• Information Processing Theory (G.A. Miller)
• Lateral Thinking (E. DeBono)
• Levels of Processing (Craik & Lockhart)
• Mathematical Learning Theory (R.C. Atkinson)
• Mathematical Problem Solving (A. Schoenfeld)
• Minimalism (J. M. Carroll)
• Model Centered Instruction and Design Layering (Andrew Gibbons)
• Modes of Learning (D. Rumelhart & D. Norman)
• Multiple Intelligences (Howard Gardner)
• Operant Conditioning (B.F. Skinner)
• Originality (I. Maltzman)
• Phenomenonography (F. Marton & N. Entwistle)
• Repair Theory (K. VanLehn)
• Script Theory (Roger Schank)
• Sign Theory (E. Tolman)
• Situated Learning (J. Lave)
• Soar (A. Newell et al.)
• Social Development (L. Vygotsky)
• Social Learning Theory (A. Bandura)
• Stimulus Sampling Theory (W. Estes)
• Structural Learning Theory (J. Scandura)
• Structure of Intellect (J. Guilford)
• Subsumption Theory (D. Ausubel)
• Symbol Systems (G. Salomon)
• Triarchic Theory (R. Sternberg)
• Transformational Theory (J. Mezirow)