When Gertrude has an assignment due for school, she procrastinates and distracts herself by checking social media and texting her friends. Gertrude is demonstrating a(n) __________ goal orientation.

A. work-avoidance
B. performance
C. mastery
D. expectancy-value


Answer: A

Psychology

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a. all the forbidden desires and traumas accumulated over the person's life b. the ego and its defense mechanisms c. archetypes, symbols of enduring concepts passed from one generation to the next d. a driving force to overcome inferiority and to achieve superiority

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a. Experience at daycare/preschool b. Parental warmth or rejection c. Medical history of illnesses d. Nutrition

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