________ is the degree to which a person chooses to engage in and keep trying to accomplish challenging tasks
A) Achievement motivation
B) Mastery orientation
C) Self-fulfilling prophecy
D) Strong academic motivation
A) Achievement motivation
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When researchers suggest a memory to someone who had not reported it, what kind of memory (if any) can they get people to report?
a. Only an event that did actually happen b. Only an event that could easily have happened c. Sometimes even a very unlikely event d. No event at all that people hadn't already reported
Within Piaget's theory of cognitive development, children demonstrate ____ when they adjust their existing cognitive schemes around new information or experiences that are inconsistent with those schemes
a. assimilation b. reversing c. accommodation d. egocentrism
Chapter 13 discussed research about whether 12- to 18-month-old children can learn language by watching a DVD. The DVD shows a household object, while a voiceover says the object's name
According to the results, children learned significantly more words a. if the children watched the video by themselves, compared to a control group that had no video. b. if the parent taught the child the words, compared to the child learning the words from the video. c. if the parent watched the video and interacted with the child, compared to the child just watching the video. d. if the child was in the control group, without any video or teaching; their vocabulary actually increased as much as when children's parents taught them the words.
Classical conditioning involves learning that one event signals another
Indicate whether the statement is true or false