Studies have found that those college students who have a high need for achievement (nAch) tend to attribute their failure to
a. bad luck.
b. the difficulty of the task.
c. their lack of innate ability.
d. insufficient effort.
D
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McDougall's arguments against Watson included that ____.?
a. ?humans had free will b. ?data pertaining to consciousness were valuable c. ?an appeal to God as the director of human behavior d. ?free will made prediction and control unlikely e. ?humans had free will and data pertaining to consciousness were valuable
A culture-fair intelligence test a. contains items that require no linguistic knowledge
b. ensures that individuals of all races will receive similar scores. c. is designed to reduce biases due to differential experience. d. is impossible to develop.
Prospect theory makes the prediction that people display higher _____ motivation when evaluating two potential gains than when evaluating two potential losses.
A) intrinsic B) avoidance C) extrinsic D) approach
Tyler had not ridden a bicycle in ten years, yet he got on the bicycle and rode it without any complications. Tyler's ability to ride his bike is due to __________ memory
a. procedural b. semantic c. episodic d. declarative