Chapter 18 FIB Flashcards
The theories of Rotter and Mischel are ________________-directed, meaning that they see people as being guided by their expectations of the future.
goal
As an interactionist, Rotter believes that a combination of environmental and __________________ variables are responsible for behavior.
personal
Any condition that moves a person toward a ___________________ defines Rotter’s empirical law of effect.
goal
Behavior _________________ refers to the likelihood that a given behavior will occur in a particular situation.
potential
People’s expectation of being reinforced is called their ____________________________.
expectancy
Behavior potential is a function of both ___________________ value and expectancy.
reinforcement
External ____________________ includes events, conditions, or actions that our culture values.
reinforcement
Rotter sees people as ________________ animals whose perceptions of events are more important than the events themselves.
cognitive
The need to be free of the domination of others is called ______________________.
independence
Need _________________________ refers to the possible occurrence of a set of functionally related behaviors directed toward the satisfaction of the same or similar goals.
potential
Internal control of reinforcement is a ____________________ expectancy.
generalized
Rotter sees _______________________ behavior as those actions that fail to move a person closer to a desired goal.
maladaptive
Mischel proposed a _______________________ view of personal dispositions that suggests that behavior is caused by people’s perception of themselves in a particular situation.
conditional
The ______________________ paradox refers to the observation that many people believe that behavior is stable from one situation to another despite evidence that it is not.
consistency
Mischel and Shoda’s cognitive-____________________ personality system suggests that behavior reflects stable patterns of variation.
affective
