Author Question: Karina and her friend Joanna began their college careers at a competitive ivy league school and they ... (Read 76 times)

Mr. Wonderful · **on:** Jul 31, 2018

Karina and her friend Joanna began their college careers at a competitive ivy league school and they both had high grade point averages and high test scores in high school.

Yet, both of them are having a hard time getting good grades as freshmen. They find the amount of reading and the performance requirements to be so demanding that each of them has had D grades on exams. Now in their second semester, Karina is digging in, working harder, and starting to have more success, while Joanna seems discouraged and is considering giving up. Which of the following is most likely to be true of Joanna?
a. She entered college with the expectation of failure.
b. She displays a helpless pattern.
c. She has an incremental theory of intelligence.
d. She has a strong mastery orientation.

Question 2

Erikson believed that a sense of industry, believing in and taking pleasure in one's ability to be productive, first emerges

a. in infancy.
b. in the preschool years.
c. in the elementary school years.
d. in adulthood.