What is the difference between a mastery orientation and a helpless orientation for achievement attributions?
What will be an ideal response?
Children who develop a mastery orientation attribute their successes to their own hard work (internal and controllable factors) and their failures to factors that they can either control or change. They focus on learning goals. Children who develop a helpless orientation attribute their failures to their own lack of ability and attribute successes to external and uncontrollable factors such as luck. They focus on performance goals.
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Which of the following suggests that one reason for prejudice is that it makes people feel better about themselves?
A. Following the Civil War, the price of cotton was negatively correlated with lynchings. B. Adolescent bullies tend to have high self-esteem. C. Anti-Semitism rises during economic downturns. D. Communists were blamed for Germany's poor economy following WWI.
Which of the three approaches to perception would describe perception of a doorway in terms of whether it can be walked through?
A. Gestalt B. computational C. perception/action
When presynaptic neurons are active and postsynaptic neurons fire at the same time:
a. One cancels the effects of the other b. The synapse is strengthened c. No neurotransmitter is released d. The action potential is inhibited
Order effects are of particular concern in between-subject designs
Indicate whether the statement is true or false