People with a ________ mindset exert more effort, feel more alert, value the experience more, and cope and perform better when they strive with vigilance (rather than with eagerness).

Strong self-efficacy beliefs are associated with all of the following except:

The following question represents which motivational construct: “If things start to go wrong during my performance, do I have the resources within me to cope successfully and turn things around for the better?

An individual that is sensitive to positive outcomes, approaches possibilities of gain, and adopts an enthusiastic behavioral strategy of locomotion that might be characterized as “just do it” is demonstrating a(n) ________ mindset.

Corrective motivation is an improvement over the concept of a plan because it:

The cognitive mechanism by which plans energize and direct behavior is the:

As one strives to attain a goal, taking the time necessary to plan how, when, where, and for how long one will carry out goal-directed behavior:

People who adopt a mastery rather than a performance goal show a greater tendency toward the following except:

People with specific goals outperform people with vague goals. This is because specific goals:

An _____ expectation is a person’s estimate of how likely it is that he or she can act in a particular way; whereas an _____ expectation is a person’s estimate of what will happen once the person carries out that behavior.