Exam 6: Psychological Needs

Provide a definition for relatedness as a psychological need. List and briefly illustrate one environmental event that tends to involve and nurture the need for relatedness; list and briefly illustrate one environmental event that tends to frustrate and thwart the need for relatedness.

Which of the following is not an essential aspect of the provision of structure?

When people have days that allow them to feel autonomous, competent, and interpersonally related, they are more likely to agree with which of the following statements:

Flow occurs when:

Social contexts and environments that frustrate and thwart the person's psychological need for autonomy are referred to as:

When an individual possesses very high personal skills and competencies for a given activity and then engages in an activity with a very low opportunity for challenge, he or she will most likely experience:

Structure enhances engagement because it involves and satisfies the need for:

State any three positive learning/developmental benefits that research shows to be associated more with an autonomy-supportive than with a controlling environment. Pick one of these three and explain why autonomy support promotes it.

The hallmarks of autonomy psychological need satisfaction are:

A student who asks the following questions would benefit most from a teacher providing which element of competence-supportive structure?: $\bullet$ Am I doing this correctly? $\bullet$ Will I be able to do well? $\bullet$ How can I get better on this task?

Define competence as a psychological need.List and briefly illustrate one environmental event that tends to involve and nurture the need for competence; list and briefly illustrate one environmental event that tends to frustrate and thwart the need for competence.

Discuss how error tolerance (or failure tolerance) contributes to the experience of, and motivation for, optimal challenge.

Explain why students are more likely to drop out of school when their educational lives reflect controlling, rather than autonomy-supportive, relationships.

___is the need to establish close emotional bonds and attachments with other people, and it reflects the desire to be emotionally connected to and interpersonally involved with significant others in warm relationships.

The hallmarks of competence psychological need satisfaction are:

"Targets a prescribed behavior" and "applies pressures" are the two defining characteristics of what type of motivating style?

Organismic theories of motivation argue that a person's (an organism's) well-being depends on:

Outline (perhaps in a chart) one environmental event that involves, and one environmental event that satisfies, each of the three psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness.