Those with strong performance goals seek to ___?___ their competence?

Those with strong performance goals seek to ___?___ their competence?
 
  a. prove
  b. disprove
  c. improve
  d. none of the above

Ques. 2

The statement I don't know where my daughter got her math ability, but it wasn't
  from me is an example of an ___?___ theory of intelligence.
 
  a. entity
  b. implicit
  c. attribution
  d. incremental

Ques. 3

According to the text, one of the best ways to foster mastery goals in the classroom is to
  reward
 
  a. high ability
  b. improvement
  c. concern for good products
  d. compliance with the teacher

Ques. 4

Learners develop either performance or mastery goals based on their implicit beliefs
  about
 
  a. effort
  b. intelligence
  c. strategy usefulness
  d. how helpful the teacher is

Ques. 5

When training the dolphin to jump through a loop, the trainer starts at a height of one foot
  above the water and increases the height one foot per week. Eventually the dolphin can jump
  through a hoop ten feet above water. This is an illustration of:
 
  a. deliberate practice.
  b. trial-and-error.
  c. shaping.
  d. chaining.

Ques. 6

Which type of self-efficacy is positively correlated with student achievement?
 
  a. student self-efficacy
  b. teacher self-efficacy
  c. school self-efficacy
  d. all of the above

Ques. 7

Research supports which of the following classroom scenarios?
 
  a. giving students reward-contingent choices
  b. giving choices that are not reward-contingent
  c. not giving students opportunities to make choices
  d. punishing bad choices

Ques. 8

Intrinsic motivation refers to
 
  a. behaviors that are engaged in for their own sake
  b. confidence that one can successfully performance a task
  c. behaviors that are engaged in to achieve some valued outcome
  d. confidence that one can set achievable goals

Ques. 9

Low ability cues provide inadvertent information about how the
 
  a. teacher views the student's ability
  b. student views his/her own ability
  c. student views the teacher's ability
  d. teacher views his/her own ability

Ques. 10

Deci and Ryan's research suggests that tangible rewards (e.g., money for good grades)
  may
 
  a. decrease extrinsic motivation
  b. decrease intrinsic motivation
  c. increase intrinsic motivation
  d. have no effect on intrinsic or extrinsic motivation

Ques. 11

Low-ability cues occur when teachers
 
  a. refuse to help needy students
  b. help needy students only after they fail to work successfully on their own
  c. elicit low-ability statements from students
  d. are too quick to help needy students

Ques. 12

Which of the following attributions is controllable according to Weiner?
 
  a. effort
  b. luck
  c. ability
  d. task difficulty

Ques. 13

Which of the following is NOT one of the recommended ways to increase self
  efficacy?
 
  a. expert modeling
  b. provide explicit feedback
  c. decrease performance expectations
  d. verbal persuasion from teachers and peers