Which One of the Following Students Clearly Has a Performance

question 20

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following students clearly has a performance goal rather than a mastery goal?

• A)Alec judges his own performance on the basis of how his classmates do.
• B)Blanche always does more than her teacher requires.
• C)Christina persists when she encounters a difficult mathematics problem.
• D)Devon is bored by easy assignments.

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Definitions:

Hidden Characteristic

A quality of a product or service that is not immediately observable to the buyer, often leading to information asymmetry in the market.

Transitive

In logic and mathematics, transitive refers to a relation where if it applies between successive pairs in a sequence, it also applies between any two members taken in order. For example, if A is larger than B, and B is larger than C, then A is larger than C.

Preferences

Indications of the choices or selections made by individuals or groups based on tastes, likes, or desires, often influencing decision-making.

Condorcet Voting Paradox

A situation in social choice theory where collective preferences can be cyclic (i.e., not transitive), even if the individual preferences of voters are not.