Exam 11: Motivation and Affect

Students often have multiple goals toward which they are striving.Under such circumstances, they may do any three of the following things.Which one are they least likely to do?

Three of the following statements about the need for relatedness are accurate.Which one is not true about the need for relatedness?

In which one of the following situations does a teacher's behavior reflect low expectations for a student's classroom performance?

Three of the following strategies should promote productive achievement goals.Which strategy is not recommended?

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:

Maggie does her homework primarily to gain her teacher's approval.She has little internal desire to do her homework, although she does feel slight twinges of guilt when she fails to get an assignment done on time.Within the sequence in which internalized motivation evolves-external regulation, introjection, identification, integration- Maggie is showing:

Which one of the following illustrates personal interest rather than situational interest?

Which one of the following descriptions of a student best illustrates a trait perspective of motivation?

Mike desperately wants to do well on the SAT Reasoning Test, as his scores on this test will affect his chances of getting into his first-choice college.He also knows that many students at his school think SAT scores are good indicators of how "smart" one is.Yet the night before the test, rather than get a good night's sleep, Mike goes out with his friends, has a few beers, comes home late, and wakes up with a hangover.With this information in mind, we might suspect that Mike:

From Maslow's perspective, which one of the following best reflects a deficiency need?

As many students move through the grade levels, performance goals increasingly predominate over mastery goals.Three of the following are partial explanations for this developmental trend.Which alternative is not a reasonable explanation for the increasing focus on performance goals with age?

Marion puts off doing a project for the science fair until she has so little time to do it that she cannot possibly complete a good project.Such behavior is most consistent with the concept of:

If you were to incorporate Maslow's hierarchy of needs into your teaching practices, you would be most likely to:

Three of the following statements are true with regard to student diversity in motivation.Which one is false?

Mark and Sarah are two eighth-grade students who have just failed a math test. Considering gender differences in students' explanations for failure, how are the two students likely to explain their poor test performance?

Which one of the following individuals clearly has state anxiety?

Which one of the following students shows motivation consistent with theoretical views of self-worth?

Which one of the following teaching practices is most consistent with Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

Which one of the following alternatives best describes the concept of self-worth as a factor in motivation?

Which one of the following students is attributing success or failure on a geology test to an internal source and thinks the cause is unstable and controllable?