Quizes

Question 1

The questionnaire measure to assess the implicit motives of achievement, affiliation, and power is called the _____.

Answer 1

Picture Story Exercise

Question 2

A _____ is any challenge to the person’s sense of competence that ends with an objective outcome, such as success or failure, win or lose, and correct or incorrect.

Answer 2

standard of excellence

Question 3

When people have days that allow them to feel autonomous, competent, and interpersonally related, they are more likely to agree with which of the following statements:

Answer 3

“I feel energized.”

Question 4

Which of the following are not acquired needs according to the text?

Answer 4

autonomy needs

Question 5

Atkinson conceptualized the _____ as a force within the person to prefer and to seek out achievement situations, and the _____ as a force within the person to escape from (or be anxious about) achievement situations.

Answer 5

Ms; Maf

Question 6

______provides the social context in which internalization occurs.

Answer 6

Relatedness to others

Question 7

Implicit means _____.

Answer 7

unconscious

Question 8

The impetus (desire) to do well relative to a standard of excellence for an achievement-oriented individual involves:

Answer 8

performing better than others, as in winning a competition.

Question 9

The need for ___________ involves establishing, maintaining, and restoring relationships with others, mostly to escape from and to avoid negative emotions such as fear of rejection and loneliness.

Answer 9

approval

Question 10

The environmental incentive that activates the emotional and behavioral potential of the implicit motive for power is:

Answer 10

having impact on others

Question 11

Which of the following is not one of the key environmental conditions that can satisfy our need for competence:

Answer 11

Functional relationships with significant others

Question 12

The autonomy-supportive behavior of _____ revolves around communicating words and sentiment such as “I see”, “Yes”, “Okay”, and “What can we do differently this time?”

Answer 12

acknowledge and accept expressions of negative affect

Question 13

_____ is the need to experience self-direction and personal endorsement in the initiation and regulation of one’s behavior, and it reflects the desire to have one’s choices and preferences rather than environmental events determine one’s actions.

Answer 13

Autonomy

Question 14

Which of the following communications would you expect most to hear from an autonomy supportive teacher?

Answer 14

Johnny, your work today is not as good as yesterday, do you know why this might be?

Question 15

Which of the following is not an essential aspect of highly structured environments?

Answer 15

cooperation and teamwork

Question 16

When an individual possesses very high personal skills and competencies for a given activity and then engages in an activity with a very low opportunity for challenge, he or she will most likely experience:

Answer 16

boredom

Question 17

The motivational strategies of (a) adding an extra source of stimulation to the task, (b) setting a goal to strive for, and (c) embedding the activity within a fantasy context are all examples of:

Answer 17

interest-enhancing strategies

Question 18

Flow occurs when:

Answer 18

personal competence and activity challenge are both high

Question 19

Which of the following events increases the future probability of a behavior?

Answer 19

negative reinforcement

Question 20

When environmental challenge and personal skill are both low, people experience

Answer 20

apathy

Question 21

People who write down when and where they will carry out their goal-striving behavior are more likely to actually attain their goals than people who set the same goal but do not write down how they will do it. The motivational construct that explains this effect is:

Answer 21

the implementation intention.

Question 22

In the experiment by Pham & Taylor (1999) who performed better in the psychology midterm?

Answer 22

The students who were asked to focus on the process

Question 23

TOTE model—Test, Operate, Test, Exit—is a cognitive mechanism that explains how ______ energize and direct motivated action.

Answer 23

plans

Question 24

An individual that is sensitive to positive outcomes, approaches possibilities of gain, and adopts an enthusiastic behavioral strategy of locomotion that might be characterized as “just do it” is demonstrating a(n) ________ mindset.

Answer 24

promotion

Question 25

In the ________ mindset, personal qualities are changeable.

Answer 25

growth

Question 26

In the Test-Operate-Test-Exit (TOTE) model, “Test” is the phase where…

Answer 26

We compare the present state of a behavior/event/object against the ideal state to see whether they match

Question 27

If four people were performing sit-ups, goal-setting theory predicts that the person who would perform the most sit-ups would be the person with ___ goal.

Answer 27

a difficult

Question 28

When one’s current GPA is several points lower than the GPA one had wished for at the beginning of the school year, what sort of motivational construct comes into existence?

Answer 28

discrepancy

Question 29

Goals that are ______________ enhance performance.

Answer 29

difficult, specific, and self-congruent

Question 30

People with specific goals outperform people with vague goals. This is because specific goals:

Answer 30

reduce ambiguity in thought and variability in performance.