Author Question: Not all students want to do well in school in fact, some feel considerable peer pressure NOT to do ... (Read 248 times)

Engineer · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Not all students want to do well in school in fact, some feel considerable peer pressure NOT to do well in school. For these students, low grades and a reputation for risk-taking are likely to help them to fulfill their need for:

a. school belonging.
b. competence.
c. relatedness.
d. autonomy.

Question 2

In which one of the following situations is a student attributing failure to stable and uncontrollable factors?

a. Kami tells herself that she is getting low grades in math because, like her mom, she just isn't any good at math.
b. Lana thinks she was the last one chosen for the baseball team because she hadn't been practicing enough. She vows to do better next time.
c. Maury believes he is having trouble in music because he's been absent the last two weeks. He knows he'll have to work extra hard to catch up in his work.
d. Jason tells himself that he failed the last history test because the substitute teacher constructed a bad test. He expects to do better when his regular teacher returns from maternity leave.