@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002128, author = {伊藤, 義美 and ITOH, Yoshimi}, journal = {名古屋大學教育學部紀要. 教育心理学科}, month = {Dec}, note = {We could present four phases in the developmental process of the experimental researches of achievement motive and made a survey of each phase briefly. We sketched Raynor's theory of achievement motivation, an elaboration of Atkinson's theory of achievement motivation in terms which embrace the psychological future. Then a review of studies on Raynor's (1969) elaboration of theory of achievement motivation was made at some length. In our experiment we examined the effects of achievement motivation and contingent future orientation (2 steps path) on level of performance. As predicted subjects for whom it was assumed Ms>MAF answered significantly more problems correctly in the contingent than in the noncontingent path, while subjects for whom it was assumed Ms