Choose the letter of the best answer.

1. Which of the following best explains the difference between incentive and motivation?

  a.   Incentive is monetary while motivation is achievement of dreams.

b. Incentive depends on the promise of something external while motivation is internal.

c. Incentive is a commission or a reward while motivation is happiness of the received

incentive.

d.  Incentive depends on the grant given while motivation is the monetary drive that
pushes someone to work hard.

2.  Which of the following is not one of the theories of motivation?

a.   Contribution Theory
b.   Attribution Theory
c.    Self-efficacy Theory
d.   Choice Theory

3.  People are motivated when they pursue goals with personal meaning and when attaining
the goal is possible but not necessarily certain. What factor that increase intrinsic motivation
is being described?

a.             Curiosity

b.            Recognition

c.             Challenge

d.            Control

4. What classification of motives represents the needs of the mind and spirit such as self-
esteem, sense of duty, and self-assertion?

a.       Biological drive

b.      Physiological Drive

c.       Creativity or Self-Actualization Drive

d.      Psychological drive 

5. Which of the following is or are true about goals?

 I.  Goals might be positive or negative.

II. The goal statement should specify a time horizon and a deadline for its  completion.

III. Positive goals are the ones that an organism tries to escape from or    avoid, such as
embarrassing situations and punishments.

IV. Goals lead to need, which then lead to incentive.

a.       I and III only          b. II and III          c. I and IV           d.  I, III and IV 

6. Motivation cycle has an application in life. Which of the following is a true description of
the motivational cycle? 

      a.   Motivation cycle is a transition of states within an organism that propels the             
organism toward the satisfaction of a particular need.                    

b.      The state of motivation has 2 states.

c.       In the motivation cycle, the need drives the person into taking actions.

d.      In the cycle, psychologist utilize the concept of dreams to describe the
motivational properties of behavior. 

7. What theory of motivation is evidently shown in a fitness environment wherein  the

emotions of a client are influenced by either success or failure and the client’s believe on the
cause?

a. Choice Theory

b. Attribution Theory

c. Need Drive Theory

d. Cue-Stimulus (Non-drive) Theory

8. What factor helps people adopt other health lifestyle choices like trying to keep a healthy diet?

a.       Incentive

b.      Self-efficacy

c.       Controllability

d.      Place

9. Which of the following are recommendations from the perspective of a motivation theorist?

I.                    Provide competence-promoting feedback

 II.                  Promote mastery in challenging tasks

III.               Promote self-comparison rather than comparison with others

IV.               Be sure errors occur within an overall context or success

a.       I, II, and IV only         b. I, II,III only c. III, IV only     

d. I, II, III, IV

10. What is considered as one of the most popular cognitive approaches to the study of
motivation and it proposes that people attempt to maintain consistency among their beliefs,
attitudes and behaviors?

a.       Cognitive Dissonance

b.      Freudian Motivation

c.       Affective Arousal

d.      Drive reduction