The Effects of Motor Coordination Error Duration on Reaction Time and Motivational Achievement Tasks among Young Romanian Psychology Students

Present study is focused on highlighting the effects of motor coordination error duration on reaction time to multiple stimuli, on motivation from competition and on motivation from personal goals among young psychology students. Method: the participants were 65 undergraduate students, aged between 19 and 24 years old (m= 21.65; S.D. = 1.49), 32 male and 33 female, all from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest, Romania. Instruments were the Determination test, the Objective Achievement Motivation Test, and the two hand coordination test. Results: The first and sixth hypotheses were confirmed.