Chapter 4 Questions Flashcards
Suppose you show up for a paid experiment and receive $10. The researcher says you can double your earnings if the outcome of a coin toss is a head or lose your earnings if the outcome of a coin toss is a tail. What does the research show that most people would do?
They would not flip the coin and keep their $10
Mohammad is 4 years old. His mother, a social psychologist, asks whether he would rather have one cookie today or three cookies tomorrow. Mohammad chooses the one cookie today. This illustrates ____ ____ .
temporal discounting
Joni wants to see an R-rated (17+) movie with some friends. However, Joni is only 14, and her parents forbid her to go. Which of the following responses could be predicted from Brehm’s psychological reactance theory?
A. Joni would behave aggressively toward her parents
B. Joni would want to see the movie even more
C. Joni would sneak into the movie anyway
D. All of the above
D. All of the above
Entity theorists are to incremental theorists as ____ ____ are to ____ ____ .
stable traits; unstable traits
People who believe in free will are more ____ than people who do not believe in free will
prosocial
According to self-determination theory, people need to feel that activities are motivated by ____ ____.
internal factors
What type of motivation leads to the best outcomes?
Intrinsic
Believing that one can exert control over stressful events makes them more tolerable, even if one has no control. This is called ____ ____ ____ .
the panic button effect
Goals are the meaningful link between ____ and ____ .
values; actions
Fiona seems obsessed with achieving the goal she is working toward. She can’t seem to focus on anything else, even other goals. This is called ____ ____ .
goal shielding
Claudia is waiting in line to see a movie on the first day it is released. Just as she gets close to the ticket booth, the person in the booth announces that the movie is sold out. Rather than wait in line for the next show, Claudia leaves, but she spends the rest of the day thinking about the movie. This illustrates ____ ____ .
the Zeigarnik effect
People are often overly optimistic about what they can accomplish. This is called the ____ ____
planning fallacy
Self-regulation is most similar to which of the following concepts? Self-awareness, self-consciousness, self-control, or self-esteem
self-control
Which of the following refers to a concept or idea about how things could be? Capacity for change, self-consciousness, self-monitoring, standards
standards
Which common household device best illustrates a feedback loop?
A thermostat
