Question 1

Considering recommended strategies for promoting interest, choose the teacher who is most likely to capture students' interest in classroom subject matter.

Accepted Answer

A) In her physical education class, instead of having students warm up with calisthenics, Ms.Gaffery warms them up by teaching them the popular line dance "The Boot Scootin' Boogie." 
B) In her English literature class, Ms.Isaacs has her students compete to see who can memorize Hamlet's soliloquy "To be or not to be ...")the fastest. 
C) In his history class, Mr.Jacobs intersperses occasional anecdotes about his days as a high school football hero into his lecture on the Renaissance. 
D) In his driver education class, Mr.Lancaster lists statistics describing the probabilities of accidents happening to senior citizens who drive drunk. 
A) In her physical education class, instead of having students warm up with calisthenics, Ms.Gaffery warms them up by teaching them the popular line dance "The Boot Scootin' Boogie." 
B) In her English literature class, Ms.Isaacs has her students compete to see who can memorize Hamlet's soliloquy "To be or not to be ...")the fastest. 
C) In his history class, Mr.Jacobs intersperses occasional anecdotes about his days as a high school football hero into his lecture on the Renaissance. 
D) In his driver education class, Mr.Lancaster lists statistics describing the probabilities of accidents happening to senior citizens who drive drunk.

Question 2

Students have just done well on what was obviously an easy assignment.If their teacher praises them for their success, they are likely to:

Accepted Answer

A) Exert more effort next time 
B) Develop a mastery orientation 
C) Have high self-efficacy for academic tasks 
D) Conclude that they will have difficulty with more challenging tasks 
A) Exert more effort next time 
B) Develop a mastery orientation 
C) Have high self-efficacy for academic tasks 
D) Conclude that they will have difficulty with more challenging tasks

Question 3

Which one of the following statements reflects an entity view of intelligence?

Accepted Answer

A) "Practice makes perfect." 
B) "Phoebe is one of the brightest students I know." 
C) "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." 
D) "The more you know about a topic, the more quickly and easily you can learn new things about it." 
A) "Practice makes perfect." 
B) "Phoebe is one of the brightest students I know." 
C) "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." 
D) "The more you know about a topic, the more quickly and easily you can learn new things about it."

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

A) Alec judges his own performance on the basis of how his classmates do. 
B) Blanche persists when she encounters a difficult mathematics problem. 
C) Christina always does more than her teacher requires. 
D) Devon is bored by easy assignments. 
A) Alec judges his own performance on the basis of how his classmates do. 
B) Blanche persists when she encounters a difficult mathematics problem. 
C) Christina always does more than her teacher requires. 
D) Devon is bored by easy assignments.

Question 5

Which one of the following students is displaying intrinsic motivation?

Accepted Answer

A) Annette loves to play the viola and so practices for at least an hour every day. 
B) Bob works hard in his classes because his parents have promised to buy him a car if he gets at least a 3.5 grade point average this year. 
C) Cassie does her math homework faithfully every night because she likes her teacher and wants to please him. 
D) Dennis takes physics because he wants to become an engineer and make a lot of money. 
A) Annette loves to play the viola and so practices for at least an hour every day. 
B) Bob works hard in his classes because his parents have promised to buy him a car if he gets at least a 3.5 grade point average this year. 
C) Cassie does her math homework faithfully every night because she likes her teacher and wants to please him. 
D) Dennis takes physics because he wants to become an engineer and make a lot of money.

Question 6

Which one of the following students is most likely to have facilitating anxiety?

Accepted Answer

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 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. 
D) Dave is nervous about doing well in the 100-meter dash. 
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 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. 
D) Dave is nervous about doing well in the 100-meter dash.

Question 7

Three of the following statements characterize students with learned helplessness.Which one does not characterize learned helplessness?

Accepted Answer

A) They set low goals for themselves. 
B) They become easily discouraged when they fail. 
C) They have little confidence in their ability to succeed. 
D) They are usually young children rather than older children or adolescents. 
A) They set low goals for themselves. 
B) They become easily discouraged when they fail. 
C) They have little confidence in their ability to succeed. 
D) They are usually young children rather than older children or adolescents.

Question 8

From the perspective of attribution theory, in which way are teachers' attributions to effort most likely to backfire?

Accepted Answer

A) When students fail at a task at which they have tried very hard and are then told that they didn't try hard enough, they may decide they simply don't have the ability to do the task and give up. 
B) When students fail at a task at which they have not tried very hard and are then told that they didn't exert enough effort, they are likely to feel either embarrassed or angry. 
C) When students are told that they didn't try hard enough at a task that they expended quite a bit of effort on, they are likely to decide that the subject area has little relevance to their own lives and needs. 
D) When students are told that they didn't exert enough effort, and they really didn't try very hard, they are likely to attribute their failure to an external factor and not accept responsibility for it. 
A) When students fail at a task at which they have tried very hard and are then told that they didn't try hard enough, they may decide they simply don't have the ability to do the task and give up. 
B) When students fail at a task at which they have not tried very hard and are then told that they didn't exert enough effort, they are likely to feel either embarrassed or angry. 
C) When students are told that they didn't try hard enough at a task that they expended quite a bit of effort on, they are likely to decide that the subject area has little relevance to their own lives and needs. 
D) When students are told that they didn't exert enough effort, and they really didn't try very hard, they are likely to attribute their failure to an external factor and not accept responsibility for it.

Question 9

Day after day, Raymond's history teacher lectures about the subject matter in a dry, unengaging manner and expects students simply to sit quietly and take notes.To make class a little more exciting for himself and the students sitting near him, Raymond often draws cartoon faces on the tips of his fingers and performs little finger-puppet shows at his desk.Raymond's behavior in class can probably best be explained as:

Accepted Answer

A) Satisfying his need for arousal 
B) Reducing cognitive dissonance 
C) Reflecting a high need for self-worth 
D) Enabling him to achieve self-actualization 
A) Satisfying his need for arousal 
B) Reducing cognitive dissonance 
C) Reflecting a high need for self-worth 
D) Enabling him to achieve self-actualization

Question 10

Which one of these students most clearly has a performance-approach goal?

Accepted Answer

A) Frank finds a homework assignment too easy to waste his time with. 
B) Herb frequently asks questions in class in order to understand the information better. 
C) Selena decides to enter the school science fair in hopes of impressing her teacher and classmates. 
D) Rita was somewhat disappointed about her last test score in math.Realizing that people learn from their mistakes, she decides to study harder for the next test using different study strategies. 
A) Frank finds a homework assignment too easy to waste his time with. 
B) Herb frequently asks questions in class in order to understand the information better. 
C) Selena decides to enter the school science fair in hopes of impressing her teacher and classmates. 
D) Rita was somewhat disappointed about her last test score in math.Realizing that people learn from their mistakes, she decides to study harder for the next test using different study strategies.

Question 11

A student's expectancy about classroom success is influenced by three of the following factors.Which one will probably be least influential?

Accepted Answer

A) Whether the student has set short-term or long-term goals 
B) How helpful the student thinks the teacher's instruction will be 
C) How much effort the student thinks will be necessary to succeed 
D) How successful the student has been in the past 
A) Whether the student has set short-term or long-term goals 
B) How helpful the student thinks the teacher's instruction will be 
C) How much effort the student thinks will be necessary to succeed 
D) How successful the student has been in the past

Question 12

Which one of the following illustrates the role of expectancy in motivation?

Accepted Answer

A) Antonio plays for hours on end in the sandbox. 
B) Bernie's younger brother almost drowned last year. 
C) Chip's parents promise him a new bike if he can learn the alphabet. 
D) Drew is pretty sure he can learn to hit a baseball if his older sister helps him. 
A) Antonio plays for hours on end in the sandbox. 
B) Bernie's younger brother almost drowned last year. 
C) Chip's parents promise him a new bike if he can learn the alphabet. 
D) Drew is pretty sure he can learn to hit a baseball if his older sister helps him.

Question 13

Three of the following statements accurately describe the diversity we are likely to see in students' career goals.Which statement is not accurate?

Accepted Answer

A) Despite more open-mindedness about career options in recent years, many students continue to aspire to careers that are stereotypically "for" their own gender. 
B) Many young children reach relatively stable decisions about which career they want to pursue; adolescents change their minds fairly frequently. 
C) Many children and adolescents from low-income neighborhoods express interest in becoming well-educated professionals 
D) Students' career choices are to some extent dependent on the values they assign to various professions. 
E) g., doctors, lawyers, teachers). 
A) Despite more open-mindedness about career options in recent years, many students continue to aspire to careers that are stereotypically "for" their own gender. 
B) Many young children reach relatively stable decisions about which career they want to pursue; adolescents change their minds fairly frequently. 
C) Many children and adolescents from low-income neighborhoods express interest in becoming well-educated professionals 
D) Students' career choices are to some extent dependent on the values they assign to various professions. 
E) g., doctors, lawyers, teachers).

Question 14

Whenever Elliott thinks about science, he also thinks about how much he likes science. Which one of the following statements best explains this situation?

Accepted Answer

A) Students can work toward mastery goals and performance goals simultaneously; the two kinds of goals are not necessarily incompatible. 
B) In the brain, students' affective responses to topics may be closely connected to their knowledge about those topics. 
C) Teachers communicate their attributions for students' successes and failures in a variety of ways, the result being that students often adopt similar attributions for their performance. 
D) Many personal interests have their beginnings in short-term, situationally-induced interests. 
A) Students can work toward mastery goals and performance goals simultaneously; the two kinds of goals are not necessarily incompatible. 
B) In the brain, students' affective responses to topics may be closely connected to their knowledge about those topics. 
C) Teachers communicate their attributions for students' successes and failures in a variety of ways, the result being that students often adopt similar attributions for their performance. 
D) Many personal interests have their beginnings in short-term, situationally-induced interests.

Question 15

Luis suffers from extreme test anxiety.Three of the statements below probably describe Luis.Which one does not?

Accepted Answer

A) He has trouble thinking clearly about how to answer each question. 
B) He is more worried than his classmates are about how his teacher will evaluate his performance. 
C) As he takes a test, he looks closely and carefully at the wording of each test question. 
D) He gets lower test scores than his classmates even though he knows the material as well as they do. 
A) He has trouble thinking clearly about how to answer each question. 
B) He is more worried than his classmates are about how his teacher will evaluate his performance. 
C) As he takes a test, he looks closely and carefully at the wording of each test question. 
D) He gets lower test scores than his classmates even though he knows the material as well as they do.

Question 16

Three of the following are true statements about intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.Which one is false?

Accepted Answer

A) Reminding students of the importance of good grades will promote extrinsic rather than intrinsic motivation. 
B) Compared to students who are extrinsically motivated, students who are intrinsically motivated are more likely to learn classroom material in meaningful and effective ways. 
C) Students' intrinsic motivation to learn school subject matter tends to decrease as they get older. 
D) Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are mutually exclusive: Students who have one are highly unlikely to have the other. 
A) Reminding students of the importance of good grades will promote extrinsic rather than intrinsic motivation. 
B) Compared to students who are extrinsically motivated, students who are intrinsically motivated are more likely to learn classroom material in meaningful and effective ways. 
C) Students' intrinsic motivation to learn school subject matter tends to decrease as they get older. 
D) Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are mutually exclusive: Students who have one are highly unlikely to have the other.

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

A) Adam finds the Guinness Book of World Records on a library shelf and is intrigued by the strange people it describes. 
B) Blaine can't think of anything he'd rather do than play video games with his friends. 
C) Chuck spends every Saturday and Sunday working on the 1951 Chevy in his garage. 
D) Dave loves to snorkel and hopes to major in marine biology when he goes to college. 
A) Adam finds the Guinness Book of World Records on a library shelf and is intrigued by the strange people it describes. 
B) Blaine can't think of anything he'd rather do than play video games with his friends. 
C) Chuck spends every Saturday and Sunday working on the 1951 Chevy in his garage. 
D) Dave loves to snorkel and hopes to major in marine biology when he goes to college.

Question 18

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Motivation influences how students think about information. 
B) Motivation increases students' persistence at tasks. 
C) Motivation enhances students' memory for irrelevant information. 
D) Motivation influences the choices students make. 
A) Motivation influences how students think about information. 
B) Motivation increases students' persistence at tasks. 
C) Motivation enhances students' memory for irrelevant information. 
D) Motivation influences the choices students make.

Question 19

According to Maslow, the need for self-actualization is never completely fulfilled.Which one of the following examples best reflects the need for self-actualization?

Accepted Answer

A) Ellen spends as much of her school time as she can talking to her many friends. 
B) Fiona hasn't been feeling well lately, so she is very good about taking her medication. 
C) Gail loves art and spends all of her free time drawing on whatever is handy.She takes an art class every chance she gets. 
D) Helen strives for perfection in the speech she will give to her English class because she wants her classmates to think she is smart. 
A) Ellen spends as much of her school time as she can talking to her many friends. 
B) Fiona hasn't been feeling well lately, so she is very good about taking her medication. 
C) Gail loves art and spends all of her free time drawing on whatever is handy.She takes an art class every chance she gets. 
D) Helen strives for perfection in the speech she will give to her English class because she wants her classmates to think she is smart.

Question 20

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 attribution theory, the best thing we can say to Eileen is:

Accepted Answer

A) "Skill in soccer is totally a function of how hard you work at the game." 
B) "You have some natural athletic ability, and practice will make you even better." 
C) "Some people are just naturally good soccer players, and I've seen signs that you're probably one of them." 
D) "The game of soccer is largely a matter of luck.Some days are good ones and some days are bad.You just never know how things will go." 
A) "Skill in soccer is totally a function of how hard you work at the game." 
B) "You have some natural athletic ability, and practice will make you even better." 
C) "Some people are just naturally good soccer players, and I've seen signs that you're probably one of them." 
D) "The game of soccer is largely a matter of luck.Some days are good ones and some days are bad.You just never know how things will go."

Considering recommended strategies for promoting interest, choose the teacher who is most likely to capture students' interest in classroom subject matter.

Students have just done well on what was obviously an easy assignment.If their teacher praises them for their success, they are likely to:

Which one of the following statements reflects an entity view of intelligence?

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

Which one of the following students is displaying intrinsic motivation?

Which one of the following students is most likely to have facilitating anxiety?

Three of the following statements characterize students with learned helplessness.Which one does not characterize learned helplessness?

From the perspective of attribution theory, in which way are teachers' attributions to effort most likely to backfire?

Which one of these students most clearly has a performance-approach goal?

A student's expectancy about classroom success is influenced by three of the following factors.Which one will probably be least influential?

Which one of the following illustrates the role of expectancy in motivation?

Three of the following statements accurately describe the diversity we are likely to see in students' career goals.Which statement is not accurate?

Whenever Elliott thinks about science, he also thinks about how much he likes science. Which one of the following statements best explains this situation?

Luis suffers from extreme test anxiety.Three of the statements below probably describe Luis.Which one does not?

Three of the following are true statements about intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.Which one is false?

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

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?

According to Maslow, the need for self-actualization is never completely fulfilled.Which one of the following examples best reflects the need for self-actualization?

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 attribution theory, the best thing we can say to Eileen is:

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Considering recommended strategies for promoting interest, choose the teacher who is most likely to capture students' interest in classroom subject matter.

Students have just done well on what was obviously an easy assignment.If their teacher praises them for their success, they are likely to:

Which one of the following statements reflects an entity view of intelligence?

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

Which one of the following students is displaying intrinsic motivation?

Which one of the following students is most likely to have facilitating anxiety?

Three of the following statements characterize students with learned helplessness.Which one does not characterize learned helplessness?

From the perspective of attribution theory, in which way are teachers' attributions to effort most likely to backfire?

Which one of these students most clearly has a performance-approach goal?

A student's expectancy about classroom success is influenced by three of the following factors.Which one will probably be least influential?

Which one of the following illustrates the role of expectancy in motivation?

Three of the following statements accurately describe the diversity we are likely to see in students' career goals.Which statement is not accurate?

Whenever Elliott thinks about science, he also thinks about how much he likes science. Which one of the following statements best explains this situation?

Luis suffers from extreme test anxiety.Three of the statements below probably describe Luis.Which one does not?

Three of the following are true statements about intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.Which one is false?

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

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?

According to Maslow, the need for self-actualization is never completely fulfilled.Which one of the following examples best reflects the need for self-actualization?

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 attribution theory, the best thing we can say to Eileen is:

Teaching and Educational Psychology

Cognitive and Linguistic Development

Personal and Social Development

Group Differences

Individual Differences and Special Educational Needs

Learning and Cognitive Processes

Knowledge Construction

Complex Cognitive Processes

Behaviorist Views of Learning

Social Cognitive Views of Learning

Instructional Strategies

Creating a Productive Learning Environment

Classroom Assessment Strategies

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