The role of praise & self efficacy

Define praise

Express approval of someone else or what they have done

Define self efficacy

Person’s understanding of their own capabilities

High = more motivation

What are positive effects of praise

• acts as a award = make u feel good, repeat behaviours

• must fit performances & not used for everything

• why should you praise effort rather than performance

• praising effort is motivating - can control

• praising performance is demotivating

what is self efficacy

• beliefs in own capabilities - expectations they have about future performances

• parents & teachers create opportunities to experience success = increases SE

what is the effect of self efficacy on motivation

• high = put greater effort , persist longer, greater task performance , more resiliance

whats a weakness

• praising to encourage learning can have opposite effect

• Lepper found children less interested in doing tasks if they previuously were rewarded

• praise = demotivating

strength

• value of understanding rewards

• dweck found students who were criticised for their effort performed better on a test than those who previously been praised

• kind of praise given is important