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From the general introduction you will know that this book includes contributions from several authors. Its main themes have been introduced earlier and they will be restated and elaborated as the work progresses, rather like a fugue. Since there is a facetious definition of a fugue that describes it as ‘a piece of music in which the musical instruments come in one at a time while the audience goes out one at a time’, we hope that this fugue-like progression of the book is not going to defeat its object and cost us the attention of the reader.
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References
Atkinson, J.W. and Birch, D. (1979) An Introduction to Motivation. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand.
Evans, P. (1975) Motivation (Essential Psychology Series). London: Methuen.
McClelland, D.C. (1961) The Achieving Society. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand.
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Rachlin, H. (1976) Introduction to Modern Behaviourism (2nd edn). San Francisco: Freeman.
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Annotated reading
Atkinson, J.W. and Birch, D. (1979) Introduction to Motivation. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand. This book covers the area of human motivation quite well from the point of view of internal trait motives interacting with environmental contingencies. It fills in the details of recent research in achievement motivation and allied topics. At times the mathematical statements of theory might be too much for certain arts-biassed students, but the essential logic — all that is needed for an introductory appreciation — is usually clear.
Evans, P. (1975) Motivation (Essential Psychology Series). London: Methuen. This is a short book which should not present the reader with any difficulty. It is very much a theoretical cum historical overview of approaches to the study of motivation, leaving it to other texts, such as the one above, to fill in details of particular approaches. It also has chapters on instinct and on biologically based motivations such as hunger, thirst, sex and sleep. This might interest a student who wishes to extend the chapter’s coverage at a still introductory level.
Rachlin, H. (1976) Introduction to Modern Behaviourism. San Francisco: Freeman. This is the best introductory book for the student who is interested in following up the idea mentioned in the chapter that ‘Motivation = Reinforcement’. In line with that view, it is no surprise that the word ‘motivation’ does not occur in the index! (Reinforcement, however, does.)
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Evans, P.D. (1981). Motivation. In: Psychology for Physiotherapists. Psychology for Professional Groups. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16600-8_3
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