Chapter 17 Interventions

According to the text, children with unsophisticated emotion knowledge are at risk of developing maladaptive behavior problems. Which of the following are included in the potential problems a child might develop?

aggressive behavior

Being able to predict motivation and emotion is critical to changing motivation and emotion. But before predictions can be made, we must first

be able to explain the person's motivation

Research shows that __________can be trained and that it is trained by mental exercises such a meditation.

compassion

In the Cultivating Compassion intervention, researchers developed a program to help members of a community cultivate a greater capacity for compassion. Specifically, the researchers developed, implemented, and tested the merits of a compassion cultivation training: The results showed that:

control participants reported an unchanged level of compassion, while experimental participants reported a level of compassion for others that was significantly higher

Interventions often take the form of promoting constructive motivational states. One way of doing that would be to foster the development of flow experiences, which would involve:

finding interesting tasks that challenge - but do not overwhelm - the person's skills

In the Promoting Emotion Knowledge intervention, researchers developed a program within the context of Head Start to deliver an "Emotions Course" and an "Emotion-Based Prevention Program" to promote children's emotion knowledge. Overall, this intervention showed that children could:

increase their emotion knowledge and increase their effective emotion regulation abilities

If students are permitted to make meaningful choices about how they pursue their coursework, we might predict that they are likely to learn more. The best motivational theory explanation for this intervention would be that:

it supports their need for autonomy

In the Increasing a Growth Mindset intervention, researchers developed an intervention program to help adolescents endorse a growth mindset in thinking about a person's personality. The results of the intervention showed overall that aggressive retaliation became:

less likely, while a prosocial behavior response became more likely

The use of short-term experimental manipulations is very important in motivation and emotion study because they provide an ideal context for researchers to test their theoretical predictions about motivation and emotion. Which of the factors does not aid in this demonstration?

reinforcers

Experts in the study of human motivation and emotion are proficient in doing each of the following, except:

reversing psychopathology to quiet people's motivational and emotional conflicts

In the Supporting Psychological Need Satisfaction intervention, 21 experienced middle and high school teachers implemented an Autonomy Support Intervention Program (ASIP) that enabled high goal attainment success.

students in the control did not change, while students in the experimental group changed throughout the semester

In the Promoting Emotion Knowledge intervention, researchers developed a program within the context of Head Start to deliver an "Emotions Course" and an "Emotion-Based Prevention Program" to promote children's emotion knowledge. Results from the 20-week intervention demonstrated that children in:

the control group showed greater emotion knowledge, while children in the experimental group showed a significantly greater gain

In the Supporting Psychological Need Satisfaction intervention, 21 experienced middle and high school teachers implemented an Autonomy Support Intervention Program (ASIP). The intervention results showed that:

there were significant between-group differences, and experimental participants demonstrated greater levels of autonomy support