Andy is a middle school student who is being bullied regularly after school. He hasn't told his parents or teachers because he thinks that he should be able to control the situation by himself, which is not true. This belief will
a. reduce his stress level.
b. provide him with an outlet for his frustration.
c. increase his stress level.
d. make him tougher and more able to deal with future problems.
Answer: c.
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While scanning the shelves in a library, you notice a book written in the 1920s. If you opened it up to look for the chapter on motivation, you would be most likely to find that psychologists
a. had not yet discovered the concept of motivation. b. believed that most animal behavior is instinctually motivated, but that human behavior is not. c. had compiled a list of 10,000 human instincts. d. were focusing on the role of expectations in motivating behavior.
Which of the following statements best describes a "testing effect"?
A) This is a case where subjects have been drawn from non-equivalent settings, such as recruiting young adults from a collegiate setting and older adults from nursing homes. B) This is a case where performance on an earlier measure or procedure affects future performance on the same task. C) This is a case where subjects who score very high or low on a test, score more towards the statistical mean the second time around. D) This is a case where people naturally get better on tests because they are more mature.