Describe a motivational process model. According to research on middle childhood, discuss how children view their abilities and explain why they are more vulnerable to evaluations by others. What allows some people to persevere after a failed attempt? How does their confidence influence their achievement behavior?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers must include the different achievement outcomes between ability seen as stable to internal and external forces as well as a comparison of ability as capacity or as a fixed trait.
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Which of the following statements is universal, in that it holds for all children?
a. ?Cultural and social expectations are the same. b. ?Temperament and energy level are the same. c. ?Rate of language growth in vocabulary is the same. d. ?Children go through the same developmental stages.
Families living in poverty have the highest rates of:
a. infant death b. babies who struggle with failure-to-thrive c. birth defects d. mental retardation e. all answers are correct
Under which of the following circumstances is a preplanned, systematic intervention often called for as a means of dealing with misbehavior?
A) A student recognizes that there is a problem and wants to change but doesn't know how to go about doing so. B) The misbehavior is relatively mild in nature. C) The behavior continues to interfere with a student's classroom performance despite several efforts to curtail it. D) The student's parents say that the behavior occurs at home as well.
Martina and her brother live in a low income housing project in a large city. They have both been misclassified as mentally retarded and have been placed in special education classes for the past several years. These children are known as
A. forgotten children B. six-hour retarded children C. deprived children D. victims