An independent measure of motivation and a performance test were given 3 different verbally created conditions of achievement motivation: relaxed, task motivated, and extrinsically motivated. The results, consistent with the hypotheses proposed, may be summarized as follows: (1) Increase in achievement motivation score was a function of both previous motivational level and the experimental conditions. (2) Performance scores were more closely related to motivation scores than to the experimental conditions. (3) Performance scores in one situation tended to be most closely related to motivation scores in another when the situations presented similar motivational cues. (4) In addition, when affiliation cues were more prominent in the situation than achievement cues, performance was related to affiliation motivation scores rather than achievement motivation scores.