Identify the student who most clearly has a mastery goal rather than a performance goal.
a. When Abby gets a new assignment, she likes to set it aside for a day or so before she actually begins to work on it.
b. Bonnie is a perfectionist who gets upset when her test grades are anything but A+.
c. When given the choice between taking an easy class or a more challenging one, Cora chooses the challenging one.
d. Dana is easily distracted by the many stimuli competing for her attention in the classroom.
Question 2
Luis suffers from extreme test anxiety. Three of the statements below probably describe Luis. Which one does not?
a. As he takes a test, he looks closely and carefully at the wording of each test question.
b. He has trouble thinking clearly about how to answer each question.
c. He is more worried than his classmates about how his teacher will evaluate his performance.
d. He gets lower test scores than his classmates, even though he knows the material as well as they do.