Exam 9: Motivation, Affect, and Cognition

When choosing a partner to work on a science fair project, Aidan selects a close friend who is not particularly good in science.With this information in mind, which one of the following is most likely to be true about Aidan?

Which teacher is most likely to promote intrinsic motivation in his or her students?

Three of the following strategies should engage students' interest in class material.Which one is least likely to do so?

Consider the recommended strategies for promoting student interest.Which teacher is most likely to capture students' interest in classroom subject matter?

Which of the following is the most accurate regarding the development of motivation throughout schooling?

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 exhibits behaviour consistent with a mastery goal?

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

Consider the discussion in the textbook on anxiety.The best approach to taking a difficult exam is to:

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

Roxanne and her teammates consistently lose basketball games by a very close margin.Roxanne believes that their losses are always due to bad calls on the part of the referees.With this information in mind, identify the statement below that is most likely to be an accurate description of Roxanne?

Describe how your students' level of anxiety is likely to affect their classroom learning and performance.Be sure to include the concepts of facilitating anxiety and debilitating anxiety in your discussion.Then describe three strategies you can use to keep students' anxiety at a productive level.

Which of the following is most accurate regarding developmental trends in differentiating between ability and effort?

According to Richard Koestner, a psychology professor at McGill University, how should classroom rules and procedures be presented to minimize students' sense of the classroom as a controlling environment?

Perspectives such as behaviourism and social cognitive theory show us how the consequence (reinforcement or punishment) of a particular behaviour affects the extent to which the behaviour is likely to appear again.Attribution theory has cast a new light on this notion, maintaining that the consequences of behaviour will affect each person's learning and future behaviour differently, depending on how the individual interprets those consequences.Within the context of attribution theory: a.explain what motivation theorists mean when they talk about attributions; b.explain how students' responses to failure are likely to be different when they attribute that failure to a controllable cause or to an uncontrollable one (give a concrete example to illustrate your explanation); and, c.describe three specific strategies you might use to foster more productive attributions in your students (use attribution theory to explain why you think the strategy will be effective).

Three of the following are factors that influence the development of attributions.Which one is not?

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

When Scott was first learning how to write, he wrote quickly and sloppily, without regard for how his papers looked.However, his teachers praised him regularly for writing carefully and legibly, and eventually he began to pride himself on his neat and careful handwriting.This transition can best be described as:

Which of the following is considered to be the ideal scenarion in relation to experiences of failure?

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

Which of the following is the most likely pathway toward internalized motivation?