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Author Bradford, Gwen, author.

Title Achievement / Gwen Bradford
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Contents Achievements: they're great- but what are they? -- Difficulty -- Competent causation -- The value of achievement -- The relative value of achievement -- Puzzles and games
Summary Gwen Bradford presents a systematic account of what achievements are, and why they are worth the effort. She argues that more things count as achievements than we might have thought, and offers a new perfectionist theory of value in which difficulty, perhaps surprisingly, plays a central part in characterizing achievements
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 14, 2015)
Subject Achievement motivation.
Performance.
Success.
Values.
Performance technology.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
Performance technology
Achievement motivation
Performance
Success
Values
Psychology.
Social Sciences.
Form Electronic book
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