Kerri Is a Teaching Assistant for a Large Lecture Class

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Kerri is a teaching assistant for a large lecture class. She enjoys grading student tests, alphabetizing them, and entering the scores in the grade book, but the professor thinks she takes too long to complete this process. Hoping to speed things up, the professor offers Kerri a small cash reward for grading each assignment quickly and accurately. This solution works until the professor runs out of money. Now Kerri complains about her grading responsibilities all the time, and she takes even longer than before to complete her work. She asks if the professor can force the 150 students to sit in alphabetical order during the test to save her time alphabetizing them later, and when the professor declines, she tells him how much she hates grading. Which of the following best explains what happened to Kerri?

• A) The extrinsic motivation of the monetary reward has come to undermine Kerri's intrinsic motivation to grade.
• B) Kerri's extrinsic desire to grade was replaced by an intrinsic motivation to make money.
• C) Kerri lost her intrinsic motivation to grade at the same time that the professor ran out of money.
• D) Kerri sabotaged her own performance by engaging in self-handicapping.

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Definitions:

Cognitive Development

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Sphere Of Scaffolding

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Transformational Scaffolding

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Concrete Interventions

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