Question 1

Explain the distinction between exchange and communal relationships.
Explain why each type of relationship does or does not satisfy the need for relatedness.

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Question 2

Defend flow theory's assertion that any activity can be made to be an enjoyable one. To make any task more enjoyable, what two factors can be fined-tuned or adjusted? Explain.

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Question 3

List and provide a brief example for each of the six elements of an autonomy-supportive motivating style.

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Question 4

Provide a definition for relatedness as a psychological need. List and briefly illustrate one environmental event that tends to involve and nurture the need for relatedness; list and briefly illustrate one environmental event that tends to frustrate and thwart the need for relatedness.

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Question 5

State any three positive learning/developmental benefits that research shows to be
associated more with an autonomy-supportive than with a controlling environment.
Pick one of these three and explain why autonomy support promotes it.

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Question 6

Discuss how error tolerance (or failure tolerance) contributes to the experience of, and motivation for, optimal challenge.

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Question 7

Explain this idea: Psychological needs function as psychological nutriments to
positive psychological well-being.

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Question 8

Explain "the conundrum of choice."

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Question 9

What is vitality? Explain how the experiences of autonomy, competence, and
relatedness need satisfaction function as psychological nutriments that allow people to
feel vital.

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Question 10

Explain why students are more likely to drop out of school when their educational lives reflect controlling, rather than autonomy-supportive, relationships.

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Question 11

Define competence as a psychological need.List and briefly illustrate one environmental event that tends to involve and nurture the need for competence; list and briefly illustrate one environmental event that tends to frustrate and thwart the need for competence.

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Question 12

Outline (perhaps in a chart) one environmental event that involves, and one environmental event that satisfies, each of the three psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness.

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Question 13

Use Csikszentmihalyi's model of flow to outline the theoretical relationship between level of challenge offered by an activity on the one hand and the individual's level of competence on the other.State the emotional consequences of matches and mismatches between activity challenge and personal competence.

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Question 14

Explain the role psychological needs play in helping a person have "a good day."

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Question 15

Identify each of the three key aspects of a highly structured environment.
Provide a brief example of what a person who provided high structure would say or do
while providing each of these three aspects of structure.

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Question 16

The textbook argues that psychological need satisfaction underlies and explains
"what makes for a good (happy, satisfied) day." Explain how daily psychological need
satisfaction experiences explain when a person does and does not have a "good day."

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Question 17

Summarize how Harter's research findings with the grade school children solving anagrams showed that people experience pleasure most in a context of optimal challenge.

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Question 18

Why does "acknowledging and accepting expressions of negative affect" work as a motivational strategy to promote both autonomy and positive outcomes?

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Quiz 6: Psychological Needs

Explain the distinction between exchange and communal relationships. Explain why each type of relationship does or does not satisfy the need for relatedness.

Defend flow theory's assertion that any activity can be made to be an enjoyable one. To make any task more enjoyable, what two factors can be fined-tuned or adjusted? Explain.

List and provide a brief example for each of the six elements of an autonomy-supportive motivating style.

Provide a definition for relatedness as a psychological need. List and briefly illustrate one environmental event that tends to involve and nurture the need for relatedness; list and briefly illustrate one environmental event that tends to frustrate and thwart the need for relatedness.

State any three positive learning/developmental benefits that research shows to be associated more with an autonomy-supportive than with a controlling environment. Pick one of these three and explain why autonomy support promotes it.

Discuss how error tolerance (or failure tolerance) contributes to the experience of, and motivation for, optimal challenge.

Explain this idea: Psychological needs function as psychological nutriments to positive psychological well-being.