1989'2, p.90
Imedadze I. V.
Situational development of motivation and phenomenon of the "set"
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The study assumes the motivation as a process of formation and transformation of the mindset. The author defends the thesis that the interruption of the need and the situation brings forth not the need, but emerging of a new-psychological reality reflected in the notion of the "set". In the motivational process the situational specification of the "set" takes place at two structural levels which relate to an imaginary and actual situations. The article also discusses the problem of the personal level of self-regulation in the view of the "set" theory.