Which of the following is NOT characteristic of a learning orientation?
a. quits when frustrated
b. changes strategies
c. enjoys challenge
d. asks for help
Ques. 2Compared to students with strong performance goals, students with strong mastery
goals are more likely to attribute ___?___
a. their success to teachers, but not their failure
b. their failure to teachers, but not their success
c. both success and failure to teachers
d. neither success nor failure to teachers
Ques. 3Which type of feedback has the most beneficial effect on self-efficacy?
a. summative
b. attributional
c. criterion
d. formative
Ques. 4Which type of attributional retraining methods improve performance and motivation?
a. attributing success to uncontrollable causes
b. explaining to others why they are not succeeding
c. writing a summary of reasons for recent classroom success
d. observing highly skilled expert models
Ques. 5The idea that using strategies can improve one's learning is most consistent with
a. an entity theory
b. a schema theory
c. a naive theory
d. an incremental theory
Ques. 6According to Deci and Ryan, the best way to increase student autonomy is to
a. use rewards
b. eliminate grades
c. let students make meaningful choices
d. let teachers make students' decisions for them
Ques. 7Reciprocal determinism refers to the interaction between
a. goals and attributions
b. goals and environmental variables
c. hope and behavioral variables
d. personal, behavioral and environmental variables
Ques. 8Vicarious learning refers to learning that occurs by
a. doing things
b. completing a task with others
c. watching others
d. all of the above
Ques. 9Students with high self-efficacy are more likely to
a. persist at a difficult task
b. feel less frustrated when working on a difficult task
c. engage in a difficult task
d. all of the above
Ques. 10According to attribution theory, students with which combination of attribution
dimensions are most likely to persist on a challenging school task?
a. internal, controllable, stable
b. external, controllable, stable
c. internal, uncontrollable, stable
d. external, uncontrollable, stable
Ques. 11Thinking about the attributional responses you make when you fail is an example of
a. self-efficacy
b. expert knowledge
c. selective attention
d. metacognition
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