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HudsonKB16 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Describe the five needs in Maslow's hierarchy. Illustrate each one with a concrete example of how a student might behave.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Explain each of the following situations in terms of attribution theory.

a. After a history of school failures, Marcus eventually stops trying to do well.
b. A fifth-grade teacher gives her class a difficult mathematics test, and many of her students fail it. She tells her class that she will give them a different test over the same material tomorrow. Many of the boys in the class say they will go home and study again. Some of the girls say that they already studied once, but it didn't do much good, so why bother?
c. Samantha's mother helps her study for a spelling test on Tuesday and a vocabulary test on Thursday. Samantha passes the spelling test and is quite proud of herself. She fails the vocabulary test and blames her mother for not helping her enough.

KKcool · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 20, 2018

Answer to Question 1

The five needs in Maslow's hierarchy (underlined below) and examples of behaviors that illustrate each one (in bulleted lists below) are these (the response should illustrate each need with one of the bulleted items or an equivalent example):
Physiological needs = needs related to physical survival
Asking to use the restroom or drinking fountain
Being excessively restless
Acting lethargic due to lack of sleep
Feeling ill and asking to go see the nurse
Shivering
Safety needs = the need to feel safe and secure
Wanting to know what will happen in class
Staying away from the school bully
Being truant if the route to school is dangerous
Being truant if classmates bring weapons to class
Love and belonging needs = needs to have affectionate relationships with others and to feel that one is part of a group
Dressing in accordance with current fashions
Conforming to a group
Preferring group activities to independent seatwork
Participating in extracurricular activities

Answer to Question 2

Answers to the separate parts of the question are as follows:
a. Students with a history of failure are likely to develop the belief that success is beyond their controlfor instance, that they lack the necessary innate ability. Marcus is beginning to show signs of learned helplessness.
b. Males tend to attribute their failures to a lack of effort; therefore, they will be relatively optimistic about their chances for future success. In contrast, females tend to attribute their failures to a lack of ability; therefore, they will be relatively pessimistic about their chances for future success. This gender difference is most often observed for traditionally male subject areas such as mathematics.
c. Students have a tendency to attribute their successes to internal causes and their failures to external causes. Samantha's reactions