The Effects of Motor Coordination Error Duration on Reaction Time and Motivational Achievement Tasks among Young Romanian Psychology Students

Abstract

Abstract-Present study is focused on highlighting the effects of motor coordination error duration on reaction time to multiple stimuli, on motivation from competition and on motivation from personal goals among young psychology students. Method: the participants were 65 undergraduate students, aged between 19 and 24 years old (m= 21.65; S.D. = 1.49), 32 male and 33 female, all from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest, Romania. Instruments were the Determination test, the Objective Achievement Motivation Test, and the two hand coordination test. Results: The first and sixth hypotheses were confirmed. According to these findings, there are statistically significant overall mean error duration differences in motivation from competition in young psychology students (t=2.13; p=0.037<0.05) and there are statistically significant overall mean error duration differences in correct reactions to multiple stimuli in young psychology students (t=2.0001; p=0.049<0.05). Future research on motivation from competition and on motivation from personal goals should relate anxiety level motivation achievement and performance impairment in competition.Index Terms-Aspiration level, motivation from personal goals, motivation from competition, incorrect reactions to the stimuli.

Motivation, Positive and Negative Emotion at High School Students

“…These are desires or secrets of the individual, some unconscious, others acknowledged, valued and integrated to form the foundation of complex mental processes (Lazarus, 1991). Anitei,, Chraif & Minea (2013) investigated the influence of fatigue performance motivation and frustration tolerance among young psychology students, Ani ei & Chraif (2013) highlighted the effects of motor coordination error on motivational achievement tasks at psychology students, Chraif, Anitei & Marin (2013) showed statistically significant differences regarding reaction time, performances in competition and motivation from competition at psychology students, Chraif (2013) highlighted gender and age differences in time reaction and decision to multiple stimuli, Codreanu, Boglut & Chraif (2014) investigated the relationship between the pain perception and emotions at young students at psychology and Chraif & Petrovan (2014) highlighted gender differences in time and movement anticipation of visual stimuli for psychology students.…”