Exam 11: Motivation and Affect

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

Identify the student who appears to have a mastery goal rather than a performance goal.

The textbook recommends that teachers encourage students to set and work toward proximal goals.Which one of the following illustrates a proximal goal?

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

Three of the following characterize students with a performance goal.Which one characterizes students with a mastery goal?

Frank is a good student.He attributes his success partly to studying long hours and partly to his intelligence "It runs in the family," he says).From the perspective of attribution theory, three of the following statements are likely to be accurate descriptions of Frank.Which one is probably not an accurate description?

The four statements below all involve evaluating a student's essay.Which one is most likely to preserve the student's sense of self-determination?

Three of the following statements are accurate descriptions of the effect interest has on learning and performance.Which one is not accurate?

Which one of the following students most clearly has a work-avoidance goal?

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 very little, if at all.Given what we know about how expectancies and values are interrelated in the secondary school years, we can reasonably guess that Jonathan will:

Three of the following statements accurately describe cultural and ethnic group differences in motivation.Which statement is false?

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

Which one of the teachers below is using a strategy consistent with the concept of hot cognition?

Mr.Maleska has high expectations for his students' classroom performance.With this fact in mind, we would expect him to:

Which one of the following is the best example of a student attributing success to internal factors?

Which one of the following students is displaying extrinsic motivation?

Which one of the following statements indicates that the speaker is focused on a performance-avoidance goal?

Considering research regarding when teacher expectation effects are most likely to occur, which teachers should be most careful to communicate high expectations for students' performance?

Four students in Ms.Bennett's social studies class have to give an oral report on a country of their choosing.Which one of the students appears to have a mastery goal?

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?