According to Atkinson's expectancy-value model of achievement motivation, the pursuit of achievement increases as the probability of success ____ and the incentive value of success ____
a. increases; decreases
b. increases; increases
c. decreases; increases
d. decreases; decreases
B
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What category/style of communication skills do people tend to prefer when they want to discuss strategies or learn more about a topic?
a. Affectively-oriented b. Status-oriented c. Instrumentally-oriented d. Network-oriented
“Attitudes are more likely to bias encoding and interpretation when the attitudes are easy to retrieve from memory.” This hypothesis is corroborated by which of the following studies?
a. Houston and Fazio (1989) b. Vallone, Ross, and Lepper (1985) c. Hastorf and Cantril (1954) d. none of these
Pavlov believed that classical conditioning resulted from the
a. informativeness of the CS. b. law of effect. c. mere pairing of the CS and UCS. d. contingent relationship between the CS and UCS.
When people take drugs repeatedly in the same setting, the body responds with countermeasures intended to reestablish homeostasis. In the language of classical conditioning,
these countermeasures to the drug are the ________ and the setting in which the drug is taken is the ________. a. conditioned response; unconditioned response b. conditioned stimulus; compensatory response c. unconditioned response; conditioned stimulus d. unconditioned stimulus; unconditioned response