Identify the student who most clearly has a mastery goal rather than a performance goal.
a. When Abby gets a new assignment, she likes to set it aside for a day or so before she actually begins to work on it.
b. Bonnie is a perfectionist who gets upset when her test grades are anything but A+.
c. When given the choice between taking an easy class or a more challenging one, Cora chooses the challenging one.
d. Dana is easily distracted by the many stimuli competing for her attention in the classroom.
Ques. 2Luis suffers from extreme test anxiety. Three of the statements below probably describe Luis. Which one does not?
a. As he takes a test, he looks closely and carefully at the wording of each test question.
b. He has trouble thinking clearly about how to answer each question.
c. He is more worried than his classmates about how his teacher will evaluate his performance.
d. He gets lower test scores than his classmates, even though he knows the material as well as they do.
Ques. 3Which one of the following examples best illustrates the concept of situated motivation?
a. Nathan gets extremely upset when he gets anything less than a perfect score on a test paper, probably because his parents have always expected him to be perfect at everything he does.
b. Last year Ophelia was bored to tears in history class, but this year she loves history because her teacher seems to make the subject come alive.
c. Polly is afraid of water because once, when she was a little girl, she almost drowned.
d. Quinton would really like to play on his high school basketball team, but because he's quite short, he has settled for what he considers to be second-best: being on the wrestling team.
Ques. 4From an expectancies/values perspective, which one of the following boys is most likely to want to learn how to swim?
a. Antonio's parents promise him a new bike if he can learn to swim.
b. Bernie plays for hours on end in the bathtub.
c. Chip's older brother almost drowned last year.
d. Drew is pretty sure he can learn to swim if he tries.
Ques. 5Which one of the following teaching strategies, while possibly beneficial in other ways, is least likely to foster productive dispositions in students?
a. Asking students to justify their opinions with evidence or logic
b. Modeling open-mindedness about diverse perspectives on global warming
c. Teaching students a particular algorithm to follow in solving math problems
d. Helping students understand that in a research study, correlation between two variables does not necessarily mean that one variable is the cause of the other
Ques. 6Which one of the following exemplifies situational interest rather than personal interest?
a. Adam finds the Guinness Book of World Records on the shelf and is intrigued by the strange people it describes.
b. Blaine can't think of anything he'd rather do than play poker with his friends.
c. Chuck spends every Saturday and Sunday working on the 1951 Chevy in his garage.
d. Dave loves to snorkel and hopes to be a marine biologist when he finishes college.
Ques. 7Which one of the following students is displaying extrinsic motivation?
a. Albert wants to be an accountant because he likes working with numbers.
b. Brad wants to be a veterinarian because he loves animals and wants to help them.
c. Caryn wants to become a varsity soccer player so others will admire her.
d. Donnetta wants to become an actress because she thinks acting is fun.
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