Studies have found that those college students who have a high need for achievement (nAch) tend to attribute their failure to

a. bad luck.
b. the difficulty of the task.
c. their lack of innate ability.
d. insufficient effort.

ANSWER: d

Psychology

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a. stimulus control. b. time out. c. positive reinforcement. d. situationally controlled.

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When using prompting and transfer of stimulus control, a reinforcer should be delivered when the behavior occurs:

a. in the presence of the discriminative stimulus b. following removal of a prompt c. following a prompt d. all of these

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