You know that you have a major project due in a couple of weeks but find it difficult to get started; after all, there are other things you need to get done too. Your experience is an example of the fact that the motivation to engage in an activity depends on all of the following EXCEPT
a. the reinforcers that engaging in that activity will produce.
b. the reinforcers that engaging in the other, competing activities will produce.
c. the context of reinforcement provided by the activities that you can choose between.
d. whether the activities you can choose between are a good match for each other.
e. your history of reinforcement.
d. whether the activities you can choose between are a good match for each other.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following is an important function of education?
a. Helping children understand that even if they work hard they may not reach their dreams b. Helping students gain the language of concepts, theories, and relationships that will allow them to organize experience c. Teaching children that there is generally one way to do things well and providing the method for them to do this d. Teaching children the rights and wrongs of our society and how to abide by these rules