Motivation and Emotion - Chapter 9 Quiz

For an entity theorist, the meaning of effort is:

"The harder you try, the dumber you therefore must be."

A deliberative mindset is most appropriate addressing which of the following motivational questions?

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According to the text and current research, general personality factors are not necessarily the regulators of achievement behavior in specific life domains such as school, sports, and work. This statement represents a problem associated with the:

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Bem's self-perception theory challenged the basic tenet of cognitive dissonance theory by arguing that cognition-behavior:

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The key distinction between the deliberative versus implemental mindset is:

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___________ involve(s) the ongoing maintenance and persistence of motivated action because it involves all the post-decisional processes that sustain ongoing activity.

Volition

The experience of cognitive dissonance is psychologically aversive. To reduce dissonance, people often:

add a new consonant belief.

______________ means critically evaluating whether the status quo (an "ought to" standard) has been maintained. It corresponds colloquially to the slogan, "Do the right thing."

assessment

The primary reason well-being suffers when one adopts performance-avoidance goals is that in trying so hard to avoid poor performances, one regulates day-to-day behavior in ways that produce:

dissatisfaction, negative affect, and little enjoyment or fulfillment.

People who adopt a mastery, rather than a performance, goal have been shown to show a greater tendency toward each of the following ways of thinking and feeling, except:

experience a preference to work on the task by themselves without without asking for help, assistance, or information from others.

Personal qualities are changeable qualities that represent the ______________ mindset.

growth

Dweck (1999, 2006) asserts that people think about their personal qualities such as intelligence and personality characteristics in two ways. Some see them as fixed, whereas others see them as malleable. This view represents ______________ mindsets.

growth-fixed

According to the text, which strategy best represents taking action to move from the present state to an ideal state?

locomotion

Regulatory Focus Theory (RFT; Higgins, 1997, 1998) suggests that people strive to achieve their goals by using two separate and independent motivational orientations or mindsets. These mindsets are:

prevention and promotion.

An individual that is sensitive to positive outcomes, approaches possibilities of gain, and adopts an enthusiastic behavioral strategy of locomotion that might be characterized as "just do it" is demonstrating a ____________ mindset.

promotion

According to Higgins (2000, 2005), ________________ is defined as the process of evaluating whether decisions and behaviors feel right when people rely on goal-striving resources that fit their mindset (i.e., promotion versus prevention mindset).

regulatory fit