Mr. Rawlins is faculty advisor for the high school service club. He attends every meeting, and he regularly provides the support students need to carry out their activities.
During group discussions, however, he typically sits in the back of the room and offers advice only if club members ask for it or if he thinks the club's planned activities are in some way inappropriate. In taking this approach, Mr. Rawlins is most likely to:
a. Decrease club members' expectations for success in their activities
b. Enhance club members' sense of autonomy
c. Reduce club members' interest in public service
d. Encourage club members to have external attributions about their activities
Ques. 2The four statements below all involve evaluating a student's essay. Which one is most likely to preserve the student's sense of autonomy?
a. Evaluate your first draft using the criteria you identified yesterday as being important for your writing.
b. This essay is the best one you've written all semester. I think you should include it in the portfolio you're creating for this class.
c. Your essay is so good that I'd like to submit it to the statewide essay contest.
d. This essay has the variety of sentence structures that I like to see in my students' writing.
Ques. 3Which one of the following teaching strategies is most likely to increase students' sense of empowerment?
a. Mr. Aas reminds his students that they cannot participate in the school's extracurricular sports program if their grade point averages fall below 2.0.
b. Ms. Brown asks her third graders to develop some class rules to ensure that all class members will have a chance to express their ideas openly.
c. Mr. Cranwell explains to his middle school students why good writing skills are important in the business world.
d. Mr. Diaz gives his students enough practice with basic arithmetic facts that they learn them to automaticity.
Ques. 4Considering the textbook's definitions of threat and challenge, identify the situation below that is most likely to pose a threat rather than a challenge.
a. You think you can probably make the basketball team, but only if you practice every day at home.
b. You're asked to climb up a 20-foot rope hanging from the ceiling. You've climbed 10 feet before, but you've never climbed 20 feet.
c. You've invited a professor to dinner and are trying a recipe you've never tried before.
d. You are required to take a college course in nuclear physics, even though you failed basic physics in high school.
Ques. 5Three of the following statements accurately describe ways in which various cultural groups are, on average, different from one another with respect to affect. Which statement is definitely incorrect?
a. Certain Asian cultures discourage children from feeling anger about events.
b. On average, children who have recently immigrated from faraway places worry quite a bit about how to behave in their new country.
c. Some groups try not to reveal their true feelings in their behaviors and facial expressions.
d. More so than other groups, people in China are prone to cognitive dissonancethey want everything in their lives to be logically consistent.
Ques. 6Karin and her mother live on welfare in a poor, inner-city neighborhood in Detroit. Karin is quite bright and highly motivated, and she really wants to get a college education.
However, she knows that, on average, students from low-income homes perform more poorly on the SAT Reasoning Test than students from wealthier homes. When she takes the SAT, she is so nervous that she has trouble concentrating on the test items, and so her scores underestimate her true abilities. Which of the following concepts best explains what has happened to Karin?
a. Stereotype threat
b. An external attribution
c. Hot cognition
d. Cognitive dissonance
Ques. 7Racine is very moody. One day she seems reasonably happy, but the next day she's irritable and on edge. The day after that, she's quite cheerful.
Taking developmental differences in affect into account and without knowing anything else about Racine, our best guess would be that Racine is in:
a. Kindergarten
b. Third grade
c. Seventh grade
d. Twelfth grade
Ques. 8Three of the following are common sources of debilitating anxiety for children and adolescents. Which one is least likely to provoke debilitating anxiety?
a. The opportunity to choose two elective courses in eighth grade
b. Moving to a new school midway through the school year
c. Reaching puberty two or three years earlier than peers
d. Demonstrating a difficult gymnastic skill during a test in a physical education class
Ques. 9Given what we know about how highly anxious learners mentally process information, which learning strategy would we expect them to use most often?
a. Elaboration
b. Rehearsal
c. Visual imagery
d. Organization
Ques. 10Your students have been given a challenging taskone at which they can succeed only if they work hard. Considering what we know about the effects of anxiety on performance,
which one of the following students is most likely to complete the task successfully?
a. Adam is feeling quite mellow today; his attitude is que sera, serawhatever happens, happens.
b. Berta is feeling really uptight about how she does on the task because her performance is going to affect whether she passes or fails the class.
c. Cassie doesn't care; in fact, she's half asleep.
d. Damion wants to do well on the task and is a little anxious about it, but not to the point that his hands are sweaty or his stomach is in a knot.
Ques. 11Which one of the following students is most likely to have facilitating anxiety?
a. Art doesn't begin his 20-page research report for his psychology class until the night before it is due.
b. Bert has heard that his statistics professor is an easy grader, so he isn't the least bit worried about getting at least a B in his statistics course.
c. Curt is nervous about doing well in the 100-meter dash.
d. Dave can't find the note cards he made for his book report, and in five minutes it will be his turn to give his report.
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