Educational Psychology With Enhanced Pearson eText 13th Edition By Anita Woolfolk – Test Bank

Chapter 12 Answer Key

Multiple Choice Questions

1. c Correct Answer:Shonda takes her mystery book to all of her classes and reads a few more pages whenever she gets a chance.
Feedback for Correct Answer: Intrinsic motivation is associated with activities that are their own reward. Reading her mystery book is rewarding to Shonda.
Text Reference: What Is Motivation?
2. b Correct Answer: Intrinsic
Feedback for Correct Answer: Intrinsic motivation is associated with activities that are their own reward. Learning and improving are their own rewards.
Text Reference: What Is Motivation?
3. d Correct Answer: Behavioral approach
Feedback for Correct Answer: A behavioral approach is based on extrinsic incentives, rewards, or punishments. Ms. Jovanovic is using stickers as reinforcers to reward the students’ behavior.
Text Reference: What Is Motivation?
4. c Correct Answer: Social cognitive
Feedback for Correct Answer: Bandura is one of the key theorists behind the social cognitive explanation of motivation. Social cognitive explanations of motivation emphasize individuals’ expectations for success combined with their valuing of the goal.
Text Reference: What Is Motivation?
5. a Correct Answer: Mrs. McKenzie gives students three choices for their history project. She stresses how much they will learn and grow as they work on the tasks involved.
Feedback for Correct Answer: A humanistic approach to motivation emphasizes personal freedom, choice, self-determination, and striving for personal growth.
Text Reference: What Is Motivation?
6. c Correct Answer: Survival, safety, belonging, self-esteem
Feedback for Correct Answer: Maslow (1968) called the four lower-level needs—for survival, then safety, followed by belonging, and then self-esteem—deficiency needs.
Text Reference: Needs
7. b Correct Answer: Relatedness
Feedback for Correct Answer: The need for relatedness is the desire to belong and to establish close emotional bonds and attachments with others who care about us. Miguel’s need for friends, a social group, and a sense of belonging is likely to interfere with his learning.
Text Reference: Needs
8. d Correct Answer: Mr. Andrus allows his students to choose among three types of projects they will do as a culminating activity in the history unit.
Feedback for Correct Answer: Classroom environments that support student self-determination and autonomy are associated with greater student interest and curiosity (even interest in homework assignments), sense of competence, creativity, conceptual learning, grades, school attendance and satisfaction, engagement, use of self-regulated learning strategies, psychological well-being, and preference for challenge.
Text Reference: Needs
9. c Correct Answer: Ms. Carlson writes on the board the due date for science projects and suggests that students might want to transfer the information to their notebooks.
Feedback for Correct Answer: Ms. Carlson provides information that increases students’ competence without becoming controlling. Students need to perceive that they have autonomy. If an event provides information that increases the students’ sense of competence, then intrinsic motivation will increase.
Text Reference: Needs
10. c Correct Answer: I recognize your frustration with my decision to delay the field trip.
Feedback for Correct Answer: Acknowledging students’ negative emotions in reaction to teacher control is a good way to support self-determination and autonomy. Such negative feelings are valid reactions to teacher control.
Text Reference: Needs
11. a Correct Answer: Competence
Feedback for Correct Answer: Sanya needs to master the specific skills of making eye contact and controlling her movements. She has exhibited these problems in previous speeches and should have learned strategies for mastering the skills. Then she should have practiced to achieve mastery. The need that is not being met is the need for competence or mastery.
Text Reference: Needs