Compare and contrast a mastery goal orientation with a performance goal orientation
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: A mastery goal orientation involves a desire to improve one’s knowledge and skill, whereas a performance goal orientation involves a desire to get a good score or grade or to outperform others.
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The research on gender comparisons in altruism shows that
a. the conclusions about this topic depend on the specific kind of altruism that is examined. b. men are typically more altruistic than women when the situation does not involve danger. c. men are somewhat more likely than women to be organ donors. d. social factors cannot explain why gender differences are found for some kinds of altruism, but not for other kinds.
A longitudinal study of 13,000 youth in the United States (Ott et al., 2011) found that the majority of sexual-minority youth are __________.
A. bisexual B. lesbian C. gay D. transgender
The lack of interesting in sexual activity is called
a. situational orgasmic difficulties. b. hypoactive sexual desire. c. primary orgasmic difficulties. d. generalized secondary orgasmic difficulties.
Brooke is distracted by a phone call while shopping and accidentally walks out of the store without paying for the clothes she is holding. According to Freud, if Brooke has an overly dominant superego how will she likely respond to this mistake?
A. She will feel immense guilt and immediately return to the store to confess her crime. B. She will feel pleasure from her crime and think about stealing more items. C. She will realize her mistake and calmly return to the store to return the clothes. D. She will feel ambivalent about the act and decide to keep the clothes.