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GATCE (Grade A Teachers Cert) Motivation — practice questions

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A force that energises, directs and sustains human behaviour is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The amount of effort a person puts in to reach a level of job performance is work:Read the answer and worked solution →Motivation has two major components: intensity and:Read the answer and worked solution →Murray called instinctive needs such as those for food and water:Read the answer and worked solution →The motivation to excel at difficult tasks is McClelland's need for:Read the answer and worked solution →The desire for warm and friendly relationships with others is the need for:Read the answer and worked solution →The need to control things and influence other people is the need for:Read the answer and worked solution →McClelland argued the most important motivator for successful managers is the need for social:Read the answer and worked solution →The psychologist who arranged human needs into a hierarchy was:Read the answer and worked solution →The need to be respected by others and to respect oneself is the need for:Read the answer and worked solution →More precisely, energy focuses on the unsatisfied need that is:Read the answer and worked solution →Alderfer condensed those needs into existence, growth and:Read the answer and worked solution →Herzberg called pay, working conditions and supervision:Read the answer and worked solution →Factors tied to job content and psychological growth Herzberg called:Read the answer and worked solution →The theory explaining how extrinsic rewards affect intrinsic motivation is self:Read the answer and worked solution →Theories explaining why behaviours are initiated in the first place are called:Read the answer and worked solution →The simplest motivation theory, saying people repeat rewarded behaviour, is operant:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the needsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop McClelland's needsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the motivation gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the motivation wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Hygiene or motivatorRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the motivation wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Motivation bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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A force that energises, directs and sustains human behaviour is called:

  1. Motivation
  2. Meditation
  3. Moderation
  4. Modulation
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Correct answer: A. Motivation

1. It supplies the energy behind an action. 2. It also gives that action a direction and keeps it going. 3. That force is motivation. _Source: OpenStax Principles of Management, Chapter 14, Work Motivation for Performance._

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The amount of effort a person puts in to reach a level of job performance is work:

  1. Modulation
  2. Motivation
  3. Meditation
  4. Moderation
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Correct answer: B. Motivation

1. Some people work long hours and others do the minimum. 2. The difference lies in effort exerted towards performance. 3. That difference is work motivation. _Source: OpenStax Principles of Management, Chapter 14, Work Motivation for Performance._

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Motivation has two major components: intensity and:

  1. Direction
  2. Duration
  3. Dimension
  4. Deduction
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Correct answer: A. Direction

1. Effort alone does not say what the effort is aimed at. 2. A second component names the target being pursued. 3. That component is direction. _Source: OpenStax Principles of Management, Chapter 14, Work Motivation for Performance._

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