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How can a supportive teacher help student motivation?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the educator's responsibility regarding student motivation?Read the answer and worked solution →What is akrasia?Read the answer and worked solution →Which state is the opposite of akrasia, where motivation matches one's beliefs?Read the answer and worked solution →Which classroom behaviour suggests an amotivated child?Read the answer and worked solution →Some psychologists contrast motivation with learning. How?Read the answer and worked solution →How is effort related to motivation?Read the answer and worked solution →How does Ruth Kanfer distinguish motives from motivation?Read the answer and worked solution →Some definitions call rat feeding motivated but not fly feeding. Why?Read the answer and worked solution →

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How can a supportive teacher help student motivation?

  1. By cancelling all class tests
  2. By treating mistakes as lessons
  3. By withholding all feedback
  4. By removing all small rewards
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Correct answer: B. By treating mistakes as lessons

1. Teacher behaviour has a significant impact on motivation. 2. Supportive teachers interpret mistakes as learning opportunities. 3. This encourages interaction in class. _Source: Wikipedia, Motivation, Education_

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What is the educator's responsibility regarding student motivation?

  1. Leave it entirely to chance
  2. Build a setting that sustains it
  3. Apply extrinsic rewards only
  4. Ignore students' own interests
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Correct answer: B. Build a setting that sustains it

1. Motivation shapes engagement and academic success. 2. Educators should build an environment that fosters and sustains it. 3. Relying only on rewards can conflict with intrinsic motivation. _Source: Wikipedia, Motivation, Education_

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What is akrasia?

  1. Knowing the right act but not doing it
  2. Working only for external rewards
  3. Having no goals of any kind at all
  4. Helping others without any personal gain
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Correct answer: A. Knowing the right act but not doing it

1. Akrasia is closely related to amotivation. 2. The person believes they should do something but cannot motivate themselves. 3. It is also called weakness of the will. _Source: Wikipedia, Motivation, Amotivation and akrasia_

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