People who are motivated to engage in a particular behavior to gain a reward or to avoid a negative outcome are demonstrating __________

a. intrinsic motivation
b. overjustification effect
c. extrinsic motivation
d. rationale reasoning


c. extrinsic motivation

Psychology

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a. motivated forgetting b. the recency effect c. the primacy effect d. flashbulb memories

Psychology

In recent decades, the public's appetite for pseudoscience has grown. Describe two examples of this "pop psychology" and then analyze the differences between psychology and pseudoscience

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

Describe three study techniques that would improve your test performance.

What will be an ideal response?

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Recall tasks often underestimate the amount of information that was learned

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Psychology