Psychology & Mind

Advanced Psychology: The Interplay of Motivation and Learning

This advanced quiz rigorously tests your grasp of the sophisticated psychological mechanisms underpinning motivation and the learning process. Expect to confront nuanced theories and intricate empirical findings beyond introductory concepts.

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In Edward Tolman's classic latent learning experiments, rats that explored a maze without reinforcement for ten days, then received a food reward on day eleven, subsequently showed a rapid drop in errors. The standard cognitive interpretation of this result is that:
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A seminal 1973 study by Mark Lepper, David Greene, and Richard Nisbett on the 'overjustification effect' found that children who expected a reward for drawing with markers later spent less free-play time with the markers than children who received no reward or an unexpected reward. This finding is most directly cited as evidence for which principle?
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The Yerkes-Dodson law describes the empirical relationship between physiological arousal and performance. For complex or difficult learning tasks, what is the shape and key implication of this relationship?
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In the original model of learned helplessness, what is the critical learning history that produces the subsequent motivational and cognitive deficits?
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According to Carol Dweck's research on mindsets, how does holding an 'entity theory' of intelligence (the belief that intelligence is fixed) relate to motivation and responses to challenge?
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Which of the following cognitive-motivational phenomena describes the tendency to have better recall for tasks that have been interrupted or left incomplete, compared to tasks that have been finished?
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Within the framework of Self-Determination Theory (Ryan & Deci), the construct of 'relatedness' is most accurately defined as:
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In the refined 2x2 model of achievement goal theory (Elliot & McGregor, 2001), what critical distinction is made within the broader category of 'performance goals'?
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Advanced Psychology: The Interplay of Motivation and Learning

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In Edward Tolman's classic latent learning experiments, rats that explored a maze without reinforcement for ten days, then received a food reward on day eleven, subsequently showed a rapid drop in errors. The standard cognitive interpretation of this result is that:

The Yerkes-Dodson law describes the empirical relationship between physiological arousal and performance. For complex or difficult learning tasks, what is the shape and key implication of this relationship?

In the original model of learned helplessness, what is the critical learning history that produces the subsequent motivational and cognitive deficits?

According to Carol Dweck's research on mindsets, how does holding an 'entity theory' of intelligence (the belief that intelligence is fixed) relate to motivation and responses to challenge?

Which of the following cognitive-motivational phenomena describes the tendency to have better recall for tasks that have been interrupted or left incomplete, compared to tasks that have been finished?

Within the framework of Self-Determination Theory (Ryan & Deci), the construct of 'relatedness' is most accurately defined as:

In the refined 2x2 model of achievement goal theory (Elliot & McGregor, 2001), what critical distinction is made within the broader category of 'performance goals'?

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