Exam 5: Motivation and Affect

Only one of the following definitely illustrates high self-efficacy. Which one do we know for sure has a high self-efficacy?

Three of the following strategies should engage students' interest in class material and foster their intrinsic motivation to learn it. Which one is least likely to do so?

When 14-year-old Jonathan goes out for the high school cross-country team,he discovers that he's the slowest runner on the team. After three weeks of daily practice with the team,his speed and endurance improve little if at all. Given what psychologists have learned about factors that influence the value learners attach to various activities,we can reasonably guess that Jonathan will:

When George attends the first day of an Advanced Placement class in biology,he thinks to himself,"This is going to be a really hard class. I don't know if I have what it takes to understand and remember all this stuff." George's misgivings can best be described as:

Which one of the following statements is most accurate about how anxiety affects learners' performance?

You are teaching your students how to do something-perhaps how to solve a math problem,write a research paper,or execute a side dismount from the parallel bars-and you find that your students have low self-efficacy for doing the task. a. Describe a specific task that you might eventually be teaching. b. Describe three strategies you might use to enhance your students' self-efficacy for performing the task. For each strategy,describe what you would do in specific and concrete terms.

In general,students are more likely to achieve at higher levels when they consistently use which of the following attributions?

Which one of the following is the best example of hot cognition?

In which one of the following situations is a student attributing failure to a stable and uncontrollable factor?

Three of the following strategies are consistent with the textbook's recommendations for forming expectations and attributions for students' performance. Which one is not consistent with the textbook's recommendations?

Which one of the following students exhibits a self-conscious emotion?

Which one of the following examples best describes differences between students with a mastery orientation and students with learned helplessness?

Listed below are four reasons why students might not want to take their schoolwork seriously or to try very hard to succeed at classroom tasks. Which one of these reasons is consistent with the concept of self-efficacy?

Eileen is reluctant to go out for the school soccer team. We want to enhance her self-confidence about becoming a successful soccer player. If we consider the role of attributions in motivation,the best thing we can say to Eileen is:

Considering the textbook's definitions of threat and challenge,identify the situation below that is most likely to pose a threat rather than a challenge.

The four statements below describe effects that motivation may have on learning and/or behavior. Three of the statements are accurate. Which one is not accurate?

Which one of the following is the best example of extrinsic motivation?

Karin 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?

Your students have been given a challenging task-one 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?

Which one of the following students clearly has a performance goal rather than a mastery goal?