Abby is a college student, who enjoys taking challenging classes so that she can learn skills that will be helpful to her in the future. Although she has high A's in all of her courses, she strives to do the best she can on every test and assignment because it is important to her to meet her own standards of excellence. Abby has a high need for
a. achievement.
b. power.
c. extrinsic motivation.
d. all of these.
A
You might also like to view...
As a manager, you believe that a happy worker is a productive worker, so you try to maintain good morale and labor relations. You are most concerned with
a. work efficiency. b. psychological efficiency. c. scientific management. d. time-and-motion studies.
Compared to children in other countries, how is the nutrition of children in the United States?
a. Worse than in many other countries b. Better than in many countries, but the nutrition of poor children in the U.S. continues to decline c. Better than in many other countries, with the nutrition of the poor in the U.S. getting better d. Equally with most other countries
Positive reinforcement ____ the likelihood that the preceding behavior will be repeated. Negative reinforcement ____ the likelihood that the preceding behavior will be repeated.
A. increases; increases B. increases; decreases C. decreases; increases D. decreases; decreases
Although slower than an action potential, synaptic transmission is still relatively fast because ____
a. the synaptic cleft is very narrow b. sodium ions are transported quickly c. neurotransmitters diffuse faster than electricity d. EPSPs travel faster than IPSPs