People high in performance goal orientation (pgo) are likely to choose challenging tasks, as compared to those high in learning goal orientation (lgo).

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Explanation:

People possessing a high PGO(performance goal orientation) are primarily inclined towards illustrating their proficiency or skills while the people possessing LGO pays their sole emphasis on learning and developing their skills as well as competence through shaping their goals accordingly.

Therefore, the former(PG Oriented people) are less likely to opt for the challenging or demanding tasks in comparison to the latter one(possessing LGO) due to the inherent anxiety or fear of failure because they believe in showing-off their competence that builds a performance pressure(which ends up in anxiety to face failure) on them and hence, they attempt to avoid such tasks.

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