M3 Week 13: Mischel

Question 1

TRUE OR FALSE:

Mischel believes that cognitive factors such as expectancies, subjective perceptions, values, goals, and personal standards play important roles in shaping personality.

Answer 1

TRUE

Question 2

Suggest that people’s behavior is largely shaped by an interaction of stable personality traits and the situation which include a number of personal variables

Answer 2

Cognitive - Affective Personality System (CAPS)

Question 3

Have some consistency over time but little consistency from one situation to another

Answer 3

Personal Dispositions

Question 4

TRUE OR FALSE:

Mischel’s early research led him to believe that behavior was largely a function of the situation

Answer 4

TRUE

Question 5

In this concept, Mischel acknowledged the most people have some consistency in their behavior, but he continued to insist that the situation has a powerful effect on behavior.

Answer 5

Person - Situation Interaction

Question 6

[SITUATIONAL]
What kind of situation is this?

A student may have a history of being conscientious with regard to academic work but fail to be conscientous in cleaning his apartment

Answer 6

Person - Situation Interaction

Question 7

It includes all those psychological, social, and physiological aspects of people that cause them to interact with their environment with a relatively stable pattern of variation.

Answer 7

Cognitive-affective units

Question 8

What are the five cognitive-affective mediating units?

Answer 8

1. Encoding Strategies
2. Competencies and Self-Regulation
3. Expectancies and Beliefs
4. Goals and Values
5. Affective Responses

Question 9

Include emotions, feelings, and physiological reactions.

Answer 9

Affective Responses

Question 10

[SITUATIONAL]
State the correct Cognitive-Affective Mediating Unit

“I have an avoidant attachment style and I don’t like that”

Answer 10

Affective Responses

Question 11

[SITUATIONAL]
State the correct Cognitive-Affective Mediative Unit

Two college students may have equal academic ability and also equal expectancy for success in graduate school. The first, however, places more value on entering the job market than on going to graduate school, while the second chooses to go to graduate school rather than to pursue an immediate career.

Answer 11

Goals and Values

Question 12

People do not react passively to situations but are active and goal directed

Answer 12

Goals and Values

Question 13

People’s hypotheses or beliefs concerning the outcome of any situation is better predictor of behavior than is knowledge of their ability to perform

Answer 13

Expectancies and Beliefs

Question 14

People’s hypotheses or beliefs concerning the outcome of any situation is better predictor of behavior than is knowledge of their ability to perform

Answer 14

Expectancies and Beliefs

Question 15

[SITUATIONAL]
State the correct Cognitive-Affective Mediating Unit

A student preparing for a departmental exam may think its difficult because of his previous experiences in taking exams

Answer 15

Expectancies and Beliefs

Question 16

Our expectations for success

Answer 16

Competencies and Self-Regulation

Question 17

[SITUATIONAL]
State the correct Cognitive-Affective Mediating Unit

A person may feel confident in one subject but not in another

Answer 17

Competencies and Beliefs

Question 18

How did you encode the situation or event?

Answer 18

Encoding Strategies

Question 19

[SITUATIONAL]
State the correct Cognitive-Affecting Mediating Unit

If someone insults you, will you react angrily or will you ignore it?

Answer 19

Encoding Strategies

Question 20

TRUE OR FALSE:

Mischel proposed a set of five overlapping, relatively stable person variables that interact with the situation to determine behavior

Answer 20

TRUE

Question 21

Mischel contended that some basic traits do persist over time, but little evidence exists that they generalize from one situation to another.

Answer 21

Consistency Paradox