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Expectancy and Value
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Expectancy and value organizes motivation by direction, quality, intensity, persistence and context rather than treating all effort as the same construct. The same behavior can arise from different mechanisms, so a general motivation technique cannot be promised to every person or setting; that boundary is retained when interpreting the “Expectancy and Value” page.
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