Student Motivation & Learning Environment

Question 1

The pattern which human motivations generally move through.

Answer 1

Hierarchy of Needs

Question 2

Physiological, Safety, Love/Belonging, Esteem, Self-actualization.

Answer 2

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Question 3

Learned to behave helplessly, even when opportunity for change has been restored.

Answer 3

Learned Helplessness

Question 4

Belief of one’s own competence.

Answer 4

Self-Efficacy

Question 5

Individual’s behavior modified by consequences.

Answer 5

Operant Conditioning

Question 6

Strengthing a behavior immediately after the occurrence.

Answer 6

Reinforcement

Question 7

Adding of a preferred stimulus to increase behavior.

Answer 7

Positive Reinforcement

Question 8

Taking away of an aversive stimulus to increase behavior.

Answer 8

Negative Reinforcement

Question 9

Any change that occurs after a given behavior or response reducing likelihood of that behavior occurring again in the future.

Answer 9

Punishment

Question 10

Previously learned response is eliminated when cue presented in absence of previously paired aversive or pleasant stimulus.

Answer 10

Extinction

Question 11

Process of keeping someone from doing something.

Answer 11

Prevention

Question 12

Increasingly accurate approximations of a response desired.

Answer 12

Successive Approximations

Question 13

Conditioning procedure used by Skinner to analyze behavior.

Answer 13

Shaping