Rowena expects to be rewarded by her parents with a major present, such as a new car, if she graduates from college with honors. Her resulting hard work in college best illustrates the_________theory of motivation.

Related Mcqs:

1. You parked your car in a large car park Monday morning. When you return to the car park Monday night, you have forgotten Fiesta in a large car park filled with green Volkswagens and red Fiestas, which type of visual search would you need to use?

   A. Parallel search
   B. Serial search
   C. Conjunction search
   D. Serial and conjunction

2. Sania expects that diligent study will enable to earn good grades on her tests. Paula’s belief best illustrates:

   A. the spotlight effect
   B. an Electra complex
   C. an internal locus of control
   D. unconditional positive regard

3. Parents in Westernized cultures are more likely than parents in Asian cultures to encourage children to value:

   A. enduring friendships
   B. nonconformity
   C. cultural traditions
   D. norms.

4. Adopted children’s similarity to their biological parents is generally attributed to_____________; adopted children’s similarity to their adoptive parents is generally attributed to____________________.

   A. heredity; the environment
   B. the environment; heredity
   C. the environment; the environment
   D. heredity; heredity

5. Natasha claimed that her failure to get “A’s” in all her college courses meant she was incompetent. Her therapist calmly challenged this assertion, commenting, “By your strange calculations, well over 90 percent of all college students are incompetent!” The therapist’s response was most typical of a(n)______therapist.

   A. eclectic
   B. psychoanalytic
   C. cognitive
   D. behavior

6. College students routinely underestimate how much time it was take them to complete assigned course projects. This best illustrates the impact of:

   A. the representativeness heuristic
   B. framing
   C. overconfidence
   D. functional fixedness

7. Because Ken is 6 6, people often mistakenly assume that he must be a member of his college’s basketball team. The mistaken judgement best illustrates the impact of:

   A. the availability heuristic
   B. confirmation bias
   C. the representativeness heuristic
   D. the belief perseverance phenomenon

8. You see a photograph showing a man, a woman and a car. The two people appear closer to you than the car does because they obscure part of it. This depth cue is called ______________?

   A. eye convergence
   B. linear perspective
   C. relative image size of familiar objects
   D. occlusion

9. Zeeshan was involved in a bad car accident three weeks ago in which his best friend died at the scene. Ever since the accident, Zeeshan has not been able to sleep, thinks about the accident all the time and refuses to ride in a car. Zeeshan is most likely suffering from:

   A. Depression
   B. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
   C. Acute Stress Disorder
   D. PTSD

10. A dog that gets rewarded for the first bark it makes in each ten minutes period is being reinforced on a_____schedule of reinforcement.

    A. continuous
    B. fixed interval
    C. variable interval
    D. fixed ratio