The pursuit of an activity for an outcome that is separate from the person is called __________.
A. the need for affiliation
B. intrinsic motivation
C. extrinsic motivation
D. a mastery goal
Answer: C
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Children with Down syndrome have strong ____
a. sensory motor coordination b. visual short-term memories c. muscle tone d. expressive language ability
What two discoveries did Lashley make that led him to reject the theory that the brain worked like a complex switchboard linking sensory impulses to motor reactions?
What will be an ideal response?
Psychologist Kurt Lewin believed that stimulus–response psychology was too simplistic to predict human behaviour. In his theories, he inserted which terms between stimulus and response?
A) construal of the stimulus B) structure of the stimulus C) reinforcement by the stimulus D) informational value of the stimulus
An English teacher has been teaching a sixth grade composition class for many years. He has the feeling that over the past several years, the writing ability of students has changed. A national test of proficiency in composition was administered 5 years ago. The resulting distribution of scores was normally shaped, had a mean of 85 and a standard deviation of 10.9 . In order to test his feeling,
he gives his present class of 43 students the same proficiency test. The resulting mean is 80 and the standard deviation is 8.7 . Using the z test with ? = 0.052 tail, what is your conclusion? a. reject H0; the present class appears deficient in composition writing b. retain H0; the present class is not deficient in composition writing c. accept H0; the present class is not deficient in composition writing d. reject H0; the present class is not deficient in composition writing