Achievement & Motivation

Question 1

What is the term for the extent to which an individual strives for success?

Answer 1

achievement motivation

Question 2

What is delay gratification?

Answer 2

the ability to wait longer to get a larger, better, or more valuable reward instead of a less attractive one available immediately

Question 3

What is success influenced by in college entry?

Answer 3

Conscientiousness & intelligence

Question 4

What can create mental health problems in affluent teens?

Answer 4

parents criticism when expectations are not achieved

Question 5

What are students whose grades are far lower than one would expect based on their IQ?

Answer 5

underachievers

Question 6

What is the yerkes- Dodson law?

Answer 6

a phenomenon in which a small amount of anxiety improves performance by increasing concentration

Question 7

What can impair performance as a result of boredom?

Answer 7

insufficient anxiety

Question 8

What can impair performance as a result of stress?

Answer 8

excessive anxiety

Question 9

What are self-handicapping strategies?

Answer 9

deliberately behaving in ways that will likely interfere with doing well in order to have an excuse for failing

Question 10

What do boys who self-handicap tend to attribute poor performance to?

Answer 10

Lack of effort

Question 11

What do girls who self-handicap tend to attribute poor performance to?

Answer 11

emotional problems

Question 12

What is the mastery motivation?

Answer 12

motivation to succeed based on the pleasure one will experience from mastering a task

Question 13

What are performance motivation?

Answer 13

motivation to succeed based on the rewards one will recieve from successful performance?

Question 14

What type of orientation results in better performance in school? (mastery / performance)

Answer 14

mastery

Question 15

What do parents emphasize in performance motivation?

Answer 15

giving rewards to teens for good grades

Question 16

when parents use performance motivation how do students do in school?

Answer 16

less likely to do well

Question 17

What do parents emphasize in mastery motivation?

Answer 17

emphasize autonomy with teens and provide a cognitively stimulating home environment

Question 18

Parents who use matery motivation have kids who do….

Answer 18

better than in the other motivation

Question 19

What is stereotype threat?

Answer 19

the harmful effect that exposure to stereotypes about ethnic or sex differences in ability has on student performance

Question 20

What is self-efficacy?

Answer 20

the sense that an individual has some control over their life

Question 21

what is the growth mindset?

Answer 21

believing that intelligence is malleable and can be grown over time

Question 22

What are students who believe in fixed intelligence affected by?

Answer 22

self-efficacy, and they tend to be orientated toward their performance

Question 23

What do teachers who are performance orientated bring out in students?

Answer 23

• more insecure about their abilities
• more hesitant to challenge themselves
• less likely to ask questions
• more alienated from school
• more engagement in self-handicapping behavior

Question 24

What are achievement attributions?

Answer 24

the beliefs individuals hold about the causes of their successes and failures

Question 25

What are the 4 factors that individuals attribute their performance to ?

Answer 25

• ability
• effort
• task difficulty
• luck

Question 26

What students are more likely to make external attributions?

Answer 26

those who are high in performance motivation

Question 27

t or f: students who attribute their failure to factors they cannot change are more likely to feel helpless and exert less effort in similar situations.

Answer 27

true