Abstract
Following different kinds of pretreatment on an instrumental task, subjects were required to undertake a cognitive task. Groups differed both in achievement motivation and in initial expectation of success. Predictions derived from the theory of achievement motivation provided a better description of the subjects' behavior than did a recent model of responses to uncontrollable outcomes that integrates reactance theory and the learned helplessness model.
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