The extent to which an individual strives for success
What is Need for Achievement?
100
The harmful effects that preconceived expectations of abilities can have on the achievement of adolescents of different ethnicities and genders.
What is Stereotype Threat?
100
True or False? Elementary teachers do not place more emphasis on mastering the material.
What is false?
100
True or False. School performace is not influenced by enviroment factors but is only effected by genetic factors.
What is False?
200
Example: Although Angela knows the course material very well, when she is taking the test she becomes extremly anxious about what her parents will think if she does not get an A. As a result, she is not able to perform to the best of her ability.
What is Fear of Failure?
200
This difference between male and female achievement is seemingly closing.
What is the achievement gap?
200
Four factors that individuals attribute their success or failure to.
What is Ability, Effort, Task Difficulty, and Luck ?
200
True or False. Adolescents who are neglected by their peers often have a stronger academic orientation than relatively more popular students.
What is True?
300
An individual's desire to succeed is based on the expected rewards that will follow
What is Extrinsic Motivation?
300
The sense that an individual has some control of his or her life.
What is Self Efficacy?
300
True or false? Students are more orientated toward mastery versus performance.
What is True?
300
This type of parenting has also been shown to help adolescents adjust to middle school and help poorly performance early adolescents turn their academic performace around in high school.
What is Authoritative Parenting?
400
John finds great pleasure in learning and mastering the course material. He is driven to succeed by this.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
400
One of the most important beliefs about intelligence that significantly contributes to an adolescent's overall achievement.
What is the extent to which they believe intelligence is fixed or changeable?
400
The acquired belief that an individual is not able to influence events through his or her own efforts or actions
What is Learned Helplessness?
400
The interpersonal resources available to an adolescent or family.
What is Social Capital?
500
This type of parenting style often results in adolescents with a relatively stong need for achievement.
What is Authoritative Parenting?
500
A common stereotype is that males outperform females in these two academic subjects.
What are Math and Science?
500
The beliefs an individual about the causes of his or her success and failures.
What is achievement attributions?
500
The resources provided within a family through the exposure of the adolescents to art, music, literature, and other elements of "high culture".