If You Want to Address Your Students' Need for Competence

question 86

Multiple Choice

If you want to address your students' need for competence, your best strategy would be to:

• A)Help them master challenging tasks
• B)Remind them of how proud their parents will be of their achievements
• C)Remind them of how important school grades are for getting into college
• D)Give them many easy tasks to boost their sense of self-efficacy

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Definitions:

Cognitive Processes

Cognitive processes are the mental activities involved in understanding, processing, storing, and retrieving information, including perception, memory, and thinking.

Cognitive-affective Units

Mental structures in personality that determine how individuals interpret and react to their environment.

Behaviorists

Psychologists who study observable behaviors and the environmental factors that influence them, often emphasizing the role of learning.

Black Box

In psychology, this term refers to the mind or the brain where internal processes are considered unknowable or not observed directly.