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Cultivating motivation in informal learning via YouTube: Effects of reinforcement learning-based and social learning-based approaches 通过YouTube在非正式学习中培养动机：基于强化学习和基于社会学习方法的效果

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Learning and Motivation Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102122

Chen Chen

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Is need-thwarting instruction really harmful? A systematic review of its associations with students’ learning motivation and malfunction 阻碍需求的指导真的有害吗？它与学生学习动机和学习障碍的关系的系统综述

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Learning and Motivation Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102117

Yuxia Shi , Yupeng Lin , Zhonggen Yu

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Behavioral analysis of teachers and students in higher education supervision mechanisms 高等教育监督机制中师生行为分析

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Learning and Motivation Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102120

Yongbo Su , Zhina Zhang

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Fostering autonomous motivation in first-year college students: A self-determination theory-based online intervention 大学一年级学生自主动机的培养：基于自我决定理论的在线干预

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Learning and Motivation Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102118

Yurou Wang , Yadan Zhao , Jihong Zhang , Kaiwen Man , Junfei Lu

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The impact of pretraining on autoshaping and operant acquisition in rats is significant but transient 预训练对大鼠自成型和操作习得的影响是显著的，但是短暂的

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Learning and Motivation Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102112

Nathaniel C. Rice, Todd M. Myers

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Efficacy of an expectancy-based training in mitigating the effect of explicit gender stereotype activation on motor learning in children 基于期望的训练在减轻显性性别刻板印象激活对儿童运动学习的影响中的效果

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Learning and Motivation Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102119

Seyyed Mohammadreza Mousavi , Hamid Salehi , Takehiro Iwatsuki

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EFL students’ perceptions about the role of generative artificial intelligence (GAI)-mediated instruction in their emotional engagement and goal orientation: A motivational climate theory (MCT) perspective in focus 英语学生对生成式人工智能（GAI）介导的教学在其情感投入和目标取向中的作用的认知：动机气候理论（MCT）视角的焦点研究

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Learning and Motivation Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102114

Ali Derakhshan

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Does digital task-based instruction make a difference in EFL university students’ motivation in Saudi Arabia? An Active theory perspective 数字任务型教学对沙特阿拉伯英语大学生的学习动机有影响吗？积极的理论视角

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Learning and Motivation Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102115

Anwar Hammad Al-Rashidi

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Exploring the motivational dynamics of chinese learners on tandem and hellotalk: A self-determination theory perspective 自我决定理论视角下汉语学习者习得tandem和hellotalk的动机动态研究

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Learning and Motivation Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102113

Liang Yin , Jalil Fathi

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Prediction error generated by extinction attenuates overshadowing in humans 消光产生的预测误差减弱了人类的阴影

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Learning and Motivation Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102111

Roberto Jiménez-Castillo, Charbel Aguilar-Espinosa, Javier Vila

{"title":"Prediction error generated by extinction attenuates overshadowing in humans","authors":"Roberto Jiménez-Castillo, Charbel Aguilar-Espinosa, Javier Vila","doi":"10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102111","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102111","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Prediction error is a discrepancy between expected and actual outcomes in each situation (Torrents-Rodas et al., 2021). Experiencing extinction causes a rise in prediction error, which produces attention to the context, and thus context dependency. Behavioral measures of attention, such as responses to specific elements of a compound stimulus (Reynolds, 1961), have been previously proposed and can add another measure of the effect of extinction on attention and an insight into how attention changes when extinction occurs. The present experiment aimed to study the effects of prediction error produced by extinction on overshadowing through behavioral measures. Forty-eight participants were randomly assigned to four groups (n = 16) and trained to respond to Sample Stimulus (SS): Y, in a matching to sample task during a first phase. In the second phase, two groups experienced the extinction of SS: Y, while the other groups did not. All groups were trained to emit R1 responses to either compound SS: AX or SS: X during this phase. The test phase presented elements A and X separated. Results showed overshadowing when the extinction of SS: Y was not experienced, where the percentage of R1 responses was greater for A than X. However, when the extinction of SS: Y was experienced, both elements received similar responses showing an overshadowing attenuation. These results suggest that extinction produces an attentional change to X. This effect appears to be related to a rise in prediction error during extinction, which produces changes in attention.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47305,"journal":{"name":"Learning and Motivation","volume":"90 ","pages":"Article 102111"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143463384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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