Which type of attributional retraining methods improve performance and motivation?
a. attributing success to uncontrollable causes
b. explaining to others why they are not succeeding
c. writing a summary of reasons for recent classroom success
d. observing highly skilled expert models
Ques. 2The idea that using strategies can improve one's learning is most consistent with
a. an entity theory
b. a schema theory
c. a naive theory
d. an incremental theory
Ques. 3According to Deci and Ryan, the best way to increase student autonomy is to
a. use rewards
b. eliminate grades
c. let students make meaningful choices
d. let teachers make students' decisions for them
Ques. 4Reciprocal determinism refers to the interaction between
a. goals and attributions
b. goals and environmental variables
c. hope and behavioral variables
d. personal, behavioral and environmental variables
Ques. 5Vicarious learning refers to learning that occurs by
a. doing things
b. completing a task with others
c. watching others
d. all of the above
Ques. 6Students with high self-efficacy are more likely to
a. persist at a difficult task
b. feel less frustrated when working on a difficult task
c. engage in a difficult task
d. all of the above
Ques. 7According to attribution theory, students with which combination of attribution
dimensions are most likely to persist on a challenging school task?
a. internal, controllable, stable
b. external, controllable, stable
c. internal, uncontrollable, stable
d. external, uncontrollable, stable
Ques. 8Thinking about the attributional responses you make when you fail is an example of
a. self-efficacy
b. expert knowledge
c. selective attention
d. metacognition
Ques. 9The testing effect, as it relates to memory, refers to:
a. anxiety's negative consequences for student test performance
b. spreading activation's role in helping students recall information
c. the effect of taking tests on improving retention
d. the impact of knowing in advance that one will be tested
Ques. 10Bartlett's study of The War of the Ghosts emphasizes the role that ___?___ errors
play in text comprehension
a. constructive
b. translation
c. syntactic
d. reconstructive
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