Module 29 Review

1. When parents offer good-grade rewards to children who already enjoy studying, they may find that the children no longer enjoy studying and only enjoy the rewards. Which of the following have the parents accidentally removed from their children?

• a. Latent learning
• b. Extrinsic motivation
• c. Intrinsic motivation
• d. Insight learning
• e. Emotion-focused coping

2. Which ability is likely to predict good adjustment, better grades, and social success?

• a. Self-control
• b. An external locus of control
• c. Problem-focused coping
• d. Learned helplessness
• e. Emotion-focused coping

3. Elephants appear to have excellent _____ because they can remember large sections of their territory.

• a. latent learning
• b. insight
• c. cognitive maps
• d. extrinsic motivation
• e. mirror neurons

4. The perception that we control our own fate is also called what?

• a. Self-control
• b. Learned helplessness
• c. Internal locus of control
• d. External locus of control
• e. Emotion-focused coping

5. A woman had been pondering a problem for days and was about to give up when, suddenly, the solution came to her. Her experience can be best described as what?

• a. Cognitive mapping
• b. Insight
• c. Operant conditioning
• d. Classical conditioning
• e. Unconscious associative learning

Wolves who ate sheep meat tainted with poison later seemed afraid of live sheep when put in a pen with them.

• True

• False

You can easily train an animal to perform any behavior using operant conditioning.

• True

• False

When we learn that we cannot control our circumstances, we will act helpless in other circumstances, even when it is possible to exert some control.

• True

• False

People who believe in luck or fate do better in school and work.

• True

• False

Giving rewards for a behavior often leads to people wanting to continue the behavior for its own sake not for receiving rewards.

• True

• False