Helpless students tend to have __________. Mastery-oriented children have __________.
a. learning goals; performance goals
b. performance goals; learning goals
c. performance goals; performance goals
d. learning goals; learning goals
Ques. 2Which of the following was found to be the most effective type of goal for college students to self-monitor?
a. time-oriented goals
b. expectancy goals
c. ultimate goals
d. subgoals
Ques. 3After failing a history test, Meghan stated, The freezing classroom and the noisy grounds keepers made me fail. Meghan is using which kind of attribution?
a. dispositional
b. self-efficacy
c. situational
d. motivation
Ques. 4The ability to make things happen, to have control of oneself and one's environment.
a. self-determination
b. self-monitoring
c. self-efficacy
d. self-esteem
Ques. 5Girls--particularly as they grow older--often perceive their competence to be __________ boys' perceptions of their competence.
a. higher than
b. lower than
c. better than
d. the same as
Ques. 6The needs for power, affiliation, and achievement all fit into the theory of motivation proposed by whom?
a. Sigmund Freud
b. B.F. Skinner
c. John Watson
d. Abraham Maslow
Ques. 7Sam avoids arguments as well as competitive games. He tends to become anxious when he feels he is being evaluated. Sam probably ranks high in which of the following?
a. need for affiliation
b. need for achievement
c. need for power
d. need for motivation
Ques. 8Which of the following refers to students keeping track of their own progress.
a. self-monitoring
b. expectancy X value
c. motivation
d. need for affiliation
Ques. 9These specific types of goals stress working to understand and succeed at a task.
a. incentive
b. self-efficacy
c. self-monitoring
d. task-mastery
Ques. 10Having unrealistically high goals can be __________for students.
a. self-defeating
b. highly motivating
c. intrinsically motivating
d. an incentive
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