Three of the following examples illustrate ways in which self-regulated learners can control their own motivation. Which one does not?
a. Linda enjoys doing her math homework, but she finds her Spanish homework boring.
b. Sanford continually reminds himself that doing well in his classes is important if he wants to get into medical school.
c. Reese, Malcolm, and Dewey turn their group study session into a mock quiz-show format.
d. When choosing a topic for her research paper, Nancy picks something she will enjoy reading about.
Ques. 2Three of the following illustrate a product goal toward which learners might strive. Which one illustrates a process goal?
a. Trying to get one's form right in serving a tennis ball
b. Trying to earn scores of 95 or higher on weekly spelling tests
c. Trying to get an editorial published in the local newspaper
d. Trying to win a race
Ques. 3Rosamie does her homework primarily to gain her teacher's approval. She has little internal desire to do her homework, although she does feel slight twinges of guilt when she fails to get an assignment done on time. If we consider the sequence that Deci and Ryan have described for the development of internalized motivation, Rosamie appears to be showing:
a. external regulation
b. introjection
c. identification
d. integration
Ques. 4Considering research regarding when the effects teacher-expectation are most likely to occur, which teachers should be most careful to communicate high expectations for students' performance?
a. First and second grade teachers
b. Third and fourth grade teachers
c. Teachers of students who are beginning their second year of high school
d. Teachers of students who are finishing their final year of high school
Ques. 5Melissa has an ingenious method for remembering the member countries of the NATO alliance. Using words that rhyme with the numbers 1, 2, 3, and so on, she forms a visual image of each country interacting with a word that rhymes with a number. For example, she pictures a huge bun (which rhymes with 1) sitting on top of Big Ben (Great Britain), a shoe (a rhyme for 2) with a tiny Canadian Mountie (Canada) perched on its toe, a tree (a rhyme for 3) with numerous Statues of Liberty (United States) growing from its branches, and so on. Melissa's technique illustrates the use of:
a. verbal mediation
b. an external retrieval cue
c. the pegword method
d. the method of loci
Ques. 6Which one of the following pairs of students best illustrates a difference with respect to students' epistemic beliefs?
a. Irene thinks that doing well in high school is important for getting into a good college, but Isabelle thinks that she can get into college with mediocre grades as long as she has high SAT scores.
b. Julie likes going to school because that's where she sees her friends every day, but Janette likes going to school because of all the new things she learns there.
c. Keith thinks that learning chemistry is a process of memorizing symbols and formulas, but Kareem thinks that chemistry involves trying to understand the nature of elements and compounds.
d. Loren is well aware of the criteria his teacher is using to evaluate his classroom performance, but Luke is clueless about why he's doing poorly in the same teacher's class.
Ques. 7Three of the following are beliefs of epistemology. Which of the following is not a relevant belief to the study of epistemology?
a. The source of knowledge
b. The nature of learning ability
c. The speed of learning
d. The capacity of memory
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