Students with a performance/avoidance goal orientation will __________
a) study and engage in other behaviors to increase their knowledge.
b) exhibit whatever behaviors are needed to avoid failing.
c) try to surpass the performance of their peers in order to enhance their own self-worth.
d) work to the point where they are at least equal to their peers' level of performance.
d
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Traditionally, in which ethnic community do families tend to be fairly strict with all age children and tend to emphasize loyalty and interdependence among family members; respect for elders; and the development of a positive identity, self-reliance, resourcefulness, and the ability to take care of oneself in difficult situations?
a. African-American b. Hispanic c. Asian-American d. European-American
Strategies are usually viewed as being all of the following except
a. potentially available to consciousness. c. nonobligatory. b. deliberately implemented. d. mentally effortless.
Oliver Sacks's patient with neglect syndrome had which of the following problems? a. He experienced phantom pain in his paralyzed leg
b. He often crashed into things, because he couldn't feel anything on one side of his body. c. He could not recognize Dr. Sacks when he visited. d. He could not recognize his own leg.
People with high levels of _____ religiosity, who view religion as a means to an end, tend to have high levels of prejudice
A) authoritative B) extrinsic C) intrinsic D) optimistic