According to a Survey Done on Teaching Evaluations, Engineering Students

question 41

Multiple Choice

According to a survey done on teaching evaluations, engineering students consider the improvement of teaching to be the most important outcome of the evaluation process. For engineering students who believe their efforts will lead to better teaching, the motivation to fill out a teaching evaluation would have a___________ .

• A) low valence
• B) weak expectancy
• C) low performance value
• D) high valence
• E) strong instrumentality

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Definitions:

Automatic Processing

Cognitive operations that occur without conscious awareness or effort, often as a result of learning and practice.

Misinformation Effect

The misinformation effect happens when a person's recall of episodic memories becomes less accurate because of post-event information.

Hypnotically Refreshed

The process of enhancing memory recall through hypnosis, though its reliability is controversial.

Repression

A defense mechanism in psychoanalytic theory where unpleasant thoughts, memories, or feelings are unconsciously pushed out of conscious awareness.