Psychological Development and Education ›› 2010, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (1): 31-36.

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The Influences of Motivation on Creative Scientific Problem Finding Ability of First Year Students in High School

HU Wei-ping1,2, ZHOU Bei3   

  1. 1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. Center for The Development of Teacher Professional Ability, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062;
    3. Department of Applied Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan 250355
  • Online:2010-01-15 Published:2010-01-15

Abstract: Direct and indirect methods for internal and external motivation excitation were used,and influences of internal and external motivationas well as different external levels on the Creative Scientific Problem Finding(CSPF) of first year students in high school were studied.The results indicated as follows:(1) the CSPF and its' fluency and originality dimension can be promoted by direct stimulated internal mo tivation;(2) the CSPF and its' originality dimension can be inhibited by direct stim ulated external motivation;(3) different mo tivation levels caused by different evaluation method has different impacts on the CSPF.Looking forward to positive evaluation has not impact on CSPF,and avoiding negative evaluation has significant inhabitation to CSPF.

Key words: Creative Scientific Problem Finding, internal motivation, external motivation, evaluation

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  • B844.2
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