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PSYC 2009 Week 5 Test

1. Mischel’s research on the continuity of delay of gratification scores indicates that they predict.
2. According to Ellis’s work on psychological distress and its treatment, our emotional responses to a stressor should vary as a function of our .
3. Research by Hankin, Fraley, and Abela (2005) indicates that depression can, in part, be explained by individual differences in the tendency to .
4. Bandura and Cervone’s (1983) experiment that engaged participants in strenuous physical activity and then checked their self-efficacy and self-evaluative judgments demonstrated the influence of and on motivation.
5. Which of the following does not describe central features of persons, according to social-cognitive theory?
6. Although research shows that behavior varies greatly in different situations, Mischel and colleagues proposed that all people have distinctive patterns of responses that they called.
7. The effects of modeling run counter to the Skinnerian belief that individuals must be direct for learning to occur.
8. According to research by Casey et al. (2011), activation in the striatum may cause the frontal lobes to become overwhelmed, thereby making it to delay gratification.
9. The social-cognitive theory emphasizes the study of individual persons who may differ idiosyncratically from others, and, as such, those who do research within this approach often rely on techniques.
10. Research indicates that goals are often more motivating than goals because they decrease the probability of slacking off.
11. The concept of self-regulation is most closely related to:
12. The research of D’Argembeau et al. to determine whether goal-related thinking activates unique neural systems by tracking participants’ production of brain waves while they thought about future goals suggests that:
13. Research on the role of perceived self-efficacy on health can be summarized as follows:
14. Research has discovered that motivation is maximized when:
15. Reciprocal determinism is the concept that personality, behavior, and the environment must be understood as a system of forces that influence one another.
16. Self-evaluative reactions refer to the reactions that are triggered when we evaluate our ongoing behavior in light of our personal standards for performance.
17. Bandura exposed snake phobics to one of three conditions: Participant modeling, modeling, and control. Those in the participant modeling group experienced the most success because their treatment resulted in the greatest gains in
18. Whereas perceived inefficacy in relation to threatening events leads to , perceived inefficacy in relation to rewarding outcomes leads to .