Terri Is a Teaching Assistant for an Introductory Psychology Class

question 51

Multiple Choice

Terri is a teaching assistant for an introductory psychology class.She enjoys grading student assignments,but the professor thinks she takes too long.Hoping to speed up the process,the professor offers her a small cash reward for grading each assignment quickly and accurately.This solution works,until the professor runs out of money.Now Terri dislikes grading,complains about it all the time,and takes even longer than before to complete her work.What appears to have happened to Terri?

• A) The monetary reward undermined Terri's intrinsic motivation to grade.
• B) Terri's extrinsic desire to grade was replaced by an intrinsic motivation to make money.
• C) Terri lost her intrinsic motivation to grade when the professor ran out of money.
• D) Terri sabotaged her own performance by engaging in self-handicapping.

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Definitions:

StdDev

Short for Standard Deviation, it measures the amount of variance or dispersion in a set of values.

Median

A value that divides a dataset into two equal halves, representing the middle value when the data set is ordered.

StdDev

A measurement that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of data values, same as Standard Deviation.

Mean

The mean value of a collection of numbers, obtained by dividing the total sum of the numbers by the quantity of numbers in the collection.