Chapter 17

In the case study vignette of the "Suffering Student" on page 500, what might this student have benefitted from in terms of his motivation for the class?

Positive, successful experiences in class, Self-management techniques, Development of growth mindset

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 worry levels

for the control group were unchanged, while the experimental participants reported significant decreases in worry

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

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

Motivation and emotion are ________ and can be ___________.

malleable; changed and strengthened

What might be a take-home message from Chapter 17?

there is nothing so practical as a good theory

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