Motivational Patterns

    Self regulated learners are successful because they are aware of their strengths and weakness. They monitor their behavior in terms of their goals by doing so this increases satisfaction and effectiveness witch then increases motivation.

Learning Psychologist look at self-regulatory learning process in three phases. The forethought phase refers to what happens and what your beliefs are before you make the effort to learn. The performance phase refers to the processes and behaviors that happen during learning, the last phase is self reflection and this is the process that happens after each learning trial. 

Diving in deeper into the phases... 

In the forethought phase Task analysis is very important in the learning process, this includes our goal setting and planning in general. Students who set goals for themselves are more successful. Another important part of the forethought phase is self-motivation this is focused on how the student feels about learning. For example if a student has intrinsic interest in their learning that means what the students value is in their learning or the content in what they are learning. Outcome expectations are the personal conciseness for the learning. For example you continue to study and ask questions about statistics in high school because you know that you will have to take this class at the college level. The self reflection phase has two important parts self judgment and self reaction, this can relate to the amount of confidence we have in our abilities, and how satisfied we feel in our work, and how we react to our work, we may become defensive to protect our image. Performance phase falls into two categories, of self control and self observation. Self control can include the use of imagery, self instruction and attention focusing. Self observation can include self recording and self expermentation. An example of this is asking students to monitor there time.