Feedback Intervention Theory explains why feedback sometimes improves performance and sometimes reduces it. Feedback shifts a recipient’s limited attention among task details, effort, and self-related concerns; when it pulls attention toward the self, performance can suffer, whether the message is positive or negative.
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Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.