Low-ability cues occur when teachers
a. refuse to help needy students
b. help needy students only after they fail to work successfully on their own
c. elicit low-ability statements from students
d. are too quick to help needy students
Ques. 2Which of the following attributions is controllable according to Weiner?
a. effort
b. luck
c. ability
d. task difficulty
Ques. 3Which of the following is NOT one of the recommended ways to increase self
efficacy?
a. expert modeling
b. provide explicit feedback
c. decrease performance expectations
d. verbal persuasion from teachers and peers
Ques. 4High-efficacy teachers are more likely to
a. use a limited set of teaching strategies
b. use more punishment
c. persevere with low-achievers
d. allocate most of their instructional time to high-achievers
Ques. 5A behaviorist process of instruction involves identifying the goal of instruction and students'
entry behavior, and then formulating substeps leading from the entry behavior to the terminal
behavior, with each substep representing a small modification of the preceding one. This process
is called:
a. generalization.
b. transfer.
c. higher-order conditioning.
d. shaping.
Ques. 6High levels of self-efficacy are related positively to academic
a. persistence
b. strategy use
c. engagement
d. all of the above
Ques. 7Thorndike's Law of Effect is most like the ideas of:
a. Pavlov.
b. Skinner.
c. Bandura.
d. Simon.
Ques. 8According to attribution theory, learned helplessness is most likely to occur when
students make ___?___ attributions
a. internal, controllable, stable
b. external, controllable, stable
c. internal, uncontrollable, stable
d. external, uncontrollable, stable
Ques. 9Positive motivational beliefs frequently increase academic achievement because they
a. compensate for native ability
b. increase engagement and persistence
c. promote strategy use
d. all of the above