Mastery motivation in infants and toddlers: Is it greatest when tasks are moderately challenging?

By Richard E. Redding, George A. Morgan, R. Harmon. 1988

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Citations in the corpus

• Active learning of inverse models with intrinsically motivated goal exploration in robots (2013, neutral): “…of the limits of what the robot can achieve in its task space; • Allows improving significantly the quality of learned inverse models in terms of speed of learning and generalization performance to reach goals in the task space, compared to different methods proposed in the literature;”
• Toddlers' Learning From Socially Meaningful Video Characters (2011, background): “Moreover, we controlled for children’s persistence, also a proxy for motivation (see Redding et al., 1998), by limiting the amount of time the toddlers could work on the task.”