Research indicates that challenging tasks are intrinsically motivating. Of the following, which description best explains the intrinsically motivating effects of challenge?
a. People's needs for self-actualization, because challenging tasks increase students' perception that they're becoming self-actualized
b. People's goals, because challenging goals generally lead to a high-performance orientation in learners
c. Behaviorist theory, because learners are likely to perceive challenging goals as reinforcing, whether or not they're successful
d. People's needs for self-determination, because meeting challenges indicates that competence is increasing
Ques. 2Cassie Green asks her students to help her with decisions about the rules and procedures they will follow to make their classroom function smoothly. Cassie incorporates much of what the students offer into her final list of rules and procedures. Of the following, which description best explains the effectiveness of Cassie's efforts?
a. Students' beliefs about their capability
b. Students' goals
c. Students' needs for self-determination
d. Students' beliefs about attainment value
Ques. 3The ability to apply knowledge or skills learned in one context to a wide variety of different contexts is best described as:
a. positive transfer.
b. specific transfer.
c. general transfer.
d. global transfer.
Ques. 4Three of the following are factors that affect transfer. Which one is not a factor that affects transfer?
a. Similarity between learning situations
b. Reinforcement of basic skills
c. Depth of original understanding
d. Learning context
Ques. 5According to self-determination theory, the need for autonomy is an innate psychological need. Of the following, which is most likely to increase students' perceptions of autonomy?
a. Create high levels of student involvement in learning activities.
b. Create learning activities on which all the students can succeed.
c. Reinforce students for participating in learning activities, even if they aren't successful.
d. Communicate to students the utility value of what they're studying.
Ques. 6Jorge has found that the knowledge he has of the structure of Spanish, his native language, has helped him learn English structure and syntax. Of the following, Jorge's experience best illustrates:
a. general transfer.
b. specific transfer.
c. conceptual enhancement.
d. the use of mnemonics.
Ques. 7Educational leaders at one time believed that studying courses such as Latin were effective because they disciplined the mind and made learning of other content areas, such as mathematics, more efficient? If this belief had been correct, it would illustrate:
a. specific transfer.
b. general transfer.
c. global transfer.
d. total transfer.
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