psy 329 chap 12

Which of the following statements regarding work values is NOT true for adolescents?

Adolescents are able to focus on what they want from a job and identify a few rewards that are most important to them.

Compared to how her grandmother felt when she was an adolescent 50 years ago, how does Femina most likely feel about work?

Femina is more likely to say that it is important to have a job that allows sufficient time for leisure.

According to the textbook, how is puberty connected to achievement?

Puberty has impacts on how adolescents maintain status in the peer group AND on how think they about what is "appropriate" achievement-related behavior for each of the sexes.

Jacob and Stephen just got a project back from their teacher that they had worked on together. They received a D on the project. Jacob said that it was because the project was too hard. Stephen said it was because they hadn't worked hard enough on the project. Which adolescent is most likely to try harder on future projects?

Stephen

In the United States today, the peer group is most likely to have _______ influence on an adolescent's academic achievement.

a negative

The textbook states that peers are important for all of the following reasons, EXCEPT:

adolescents with an extremely high orientation toward peers tend to perform better in school

According to the text, Asian children tend to attribute success to:

hard work

Two characteristics of authoritative parents that positively influence their children's school performance are ______ and ______.

healthy beliefs about the child's achievement; less tendency to be over-controlling

Mrs. Kumin wants to help her lower-achieving students. She should:

help them learn to attribute their performance to factors that are under their control

The most effective strategy for keeping students from dropping out of high school has been:

involving at-risk students in service learning and guided discussions of their life options

Work values are the different types of rewards that individuals expect to receive from their chosen occupation. The textbook discussed all BUT which of the following values?

leverage

Motivation based on the pleasure one will experience from mastering a task is called:

mastery motivation

The text suggests that one set of factors that may differentiate the academically "rich" from the academically "poor" early in the educational setting is _________ and _________.

motivations to succeed; beliefs about the causes of successes and failure

Research on the interaction of the influence of parents and peers suggests all of the following, EXCEPT:

peers have a significantly stronger influence on adolescents than families in countries where students are placed in different schools depending on their long-term educational aspirations and occupational plans.

All of the following have been cited as possible explanations for low achievement scores among American students, EXCEPT:

students spend too much time involved in extracurricular activities.