Question 1

Describe the factors thought to be important in making compensatory education for disadvantaged students maximally effective. What could a opponent of compensatory education say to critics who argue that the benefits of effective compensatory education do not justify the costs of the programs?

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Question 2

What is the need for achievement (n Ach) and how is it measured? Discuss the evidence to suggest that achievement motivation is meaningfully related to achievement behavior.

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Question 3

As a new parent, you hope that your child will become a high achiever. What particular childrearing strategies might you use in accomplishing this objective?

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Question 4

Parents' perceptions of their child's competencies in a particular domain

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All of these choices are correct. Parents' perceptions of their child's competencies in a particular domain can become a stronger influence on the child's perceived competence in that domain than their past achievement performances, often affect how they socialize their child, and can come to influence the child's future performance in that domain.

Question 5

Both Julia and Celia are equally negative about their daughters' competencies in mathematics, based on the daughters equally poor math performances. Yet, over the next two years, Julia's daughter shows distinct improvements in math whereas Celia's daughter does not. Pomerantz and Dong (2006) might explain this result by suggesting that

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This result can be explained by Pomerantz and Dong's (2006) research on parental messages about academic abilities. Julia, who showed improvement in her daughter's math performance, may have been more inclined than Celia to send the message that academic competencies can be improved by working harder. This idea is consistent with an incremental theory of intelligence that emphasizes effort and learning over innate ability, which has been linked to better academic outcomes. Therefore, the answer is B.

Question 6

What is learned helplessness? How do Dweck and her colleagues proceed when trying to convince children to overcome this orientation?

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Question 7

What changes do we see in children's reactions to their successes and failures over the course of the preschool period?

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Question 8

Discuss the differential implications of providing person praise vs. process praise after successes for the goals that children adopt in achievement contexts and their willingness to persist at achievement tasks that they initially fail to master.

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Question 9

A parent's appraisal of her child's competency in a domain is likely to undermine the child's future performance in that domain when

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When a parent's appraisal of a child's competency is negative and the parent favors an entity view of intelligence (the belief that intelligence is fixed and cannot be improved), it can lead to the child developing a fixed mindset and believing they cannot improve in that domain. This can undermine the child's future performance as they may become discouraged and avoid challenging tasks in that domain.

Question 10

Under what circumstances might a parent's negative appraisal of a child's competencies actually undermine a child's future achievement performance? Justify your answer by citing relevant research.

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Quiz 7: Achievement