Quizes Flashcards
The questionnaire measure to assess the implicit motives of achievement, affiliation, and power is called the _____.
Picture Story Exercise
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.
standard of excellence
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:
“I feel energized.”
Which of the following are not acquired needs according to the text?
autonomy needs
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.
Ms; Maf
______provides the social context in which internalization occurs.
Relatedness to others
Implicit means _____.
unconscious
The impetus (desire) to do well relative to a standard of excellence for an achievement-oriented individual involves:
performing better than others, as in winning a competition.
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.
approval
The environmental incentive that activates the emotional and behavioral potential of the implicit motive for power is:
having impact on others
Which of the following is not one of the key environmental conditions that can satisfy our need for competence:
Functional relationships with significant others
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?”
acknowledge and accept expressions of negative affect
_____ 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.
Autonomy
Which of the following communications would you expect most to hear from an autonomy supportive teacher?
Johnny, your work today is not as good as yesterday, do you know why this might be?
Which of the following is not an essential aspect of highly structured environments?
cooperation and teamwork
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:
boredom
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:
interest-enhancing strategies
Flow occurs when:
personal competence and activity challenge are both high
Which of the following events increases the future probability of a behavior?
negative reinforcement
When environmental challenge and personal skill are both low, people experience
apathy
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:
the implementation intention.
In the experiment by Pham & Taylor (1999) who performed better in the psychology midterm?
The students who were asked to focus on the process
TOTE model—Test, Operate, Test, Exit—is a cognitive mechanism that explains how ______ energize and direct motivated action.
plans
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.
promotion
In the ________ mindset, personal qualities are changeable.
growth
In the Test-Operate-Test-Exit (TOTE) model, “Test” is the phase where…
We compare the present state of a behavior/event/object against the ideal state to see whether they match
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.
a difficult
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?
discrepancy
Goals that are ______________ enhance performance.
difficult, specific, and self-congruent
People with specific goals outperform people with vague goals. This is because specific goals:
reduce ambiguity in thought and variability in performance.
