When One's Current GPA Is Several Points Lower Than the GPA

question 47

Multiple Choice

When one's current GPA is several points lower than the GPA one had wished for at the beginning of the school year, what sort of motivational construct comes into existence?

• A)arousal
• B)difference
• C)discrepancy
• D)dissonance

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