Premium
Disciplinary differences in students' perceptions of success: Modifying misperceptions with attributional retraining
Author(s) -
Menec Verena H.,
Perry Raymond P.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
new directions for teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1536-0768
pISSN - 0271-0633
DOI - 10.1002/tl.37219956414
Subject(s) - retraining , psychology , perception , variety (cybernetics) , discipline , attribution , medical education , applied psychology , pedagogy , social psychology , computer science , medicine , sociology , political science , social science , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , law
College students bring a variety of perceptions to the classroom about what it takes to succeed in a discipline. This chapter focuses on ways to modify potentially maladaptive perceptions into more adaptive ones, by focusing on a therapeutic technique referred to as attributional retraining.