The type of articles that you will need to find is research articles located in scholarly journals. Scholarly journal articles are also referred as primary source peer reviewed articles. To find more information regarding utilizing the South University Library and accessing scholarly journal articles. What cannot be used for this assignment are Web pages, magazines, newspapers, textbooks, and other books. Finally, current research for our purposes is an article that was published within the last 5 to 6 years.

Remember this is a course on motivation so when looking for articles make sure that it is related to the subject matter covered in the course. For your research choose, find 3 articles (as described above) from the two areas below (6 articles total for the bibliography).

• Social cognitive theory
• Positive psychology
• Cognitive dissonance
• Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
• Mindfulness and happiness
• Sleep and motivation
• Expectancy theory
• Child development and motivation

The annotated bibliography should include for each article.

• summary for each article.
• analysis and evaluation for each article found.
• Make sure to integrate what you learned in your course readings in that analysis.
• Use correct spelling, grammar, and professional vocabulary.