The type of articles that you will need to find is research articles located in scholarly journals. Scholarly journal articles are also referred as primary source peer reviewed articles. A scholarly journal article can be found in the Online Library. To find more information regarding utilizing the Library and accessing scholarly journal articles click on Library Guide. What cannot be used for this assignment are Web pages, magazines, newspapers, text books, and other books. Finally, current research for our purposes is an article that was published within the last 5 to 6 years.
Remember this is a course on MOTIVATION so when looking for articles make sure that it is related to the subject matter covered in the course. For your research choose, find 3 articles (as described above) from the two areas below (6 articles total for the bibliography).
Social cognitive theory
Positive psychology
Cognitive dissonance
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
Mindfulness and happiness
Sleep and motivation
Expectancy theory
Child development and motivation
The annotated bibliography should include for each article.