Role of Parental Motivational Practices in Children's Academic Intrinsic Motivation and Achievement Gottfried Article Summary I chose to write my journal article research paper on the role of parents in children's academic motivation and achievement. The article relates the parent's role and at home practices, and the effect of these practices on the child's performance and motivation. In the longitudinal study of children ages 9 and 10, two types of motivational practices were assessed: "Parental motivational practices that encourage pleasure in the learning process, curiosity, persistence, and task endogeny are positively related to children's academic intrinsic motivation and achievement." Gottfried...
Chapter 6 on behavioral views of learning. The textbook gives examples of reinforcers and adds to many of the ideas given in the article for why corporal punishment should not be used but gives different methods of reprimand such as social isolation, or personal non-public reprimands.

The textbook attempts to focus on all forms of reinforcement, be it positive or negative. The textbook offers reinforcement systems like the token reinforcement system, self-management systems and group behavioral games. The correlation put simply between the article and the textbook is that both approach misbehavior with ideas on how to correct it.