Quiz 12 Flashcards
The two previous theories that are most similar to social cognitive theory are phenomenological theory and
B. Personal construct theory
Which of the following does not describe central features of persons, according to social cognitive theory?
B. Persons are largely motivated by factors outside of awareness
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
B. Idiographic
That an individual may be skilled at public speaking but terrible at socializing in small groups illustrates the idea that competencies, among other structures of personality, are
A. Context specific
In behaviorism, behavior was shaped by rewards and punishments in the environment. In social cognitive theory, behavior is at least partly shaped by ________ rewards and punishments in the environment
C. Expectancies about
People with high self efficacy beliefs on a task will do all of the following except which one?
C. Overthink the utility of the task
In using a microanalytic research strategy to study self efficacy, a researcher would ask people to indicate their degree of certainty in performing _____ behaviors in ______ context
B. Specific; Designated
Cervone and Peake (1986) used an anchoring technique to manipulate _____
A. Self efficacy
Research indicates that _________ goals are often more motivating than _______ goals because they decrease the probability of slacking off
A. Proximal; Distal
Self evaluative reactions refer to the _______ reactions that are triggered when we evaluate our ongoing behavior in light of our personal standards for performance
D. Emotional
Reciprocal determinism is the concept that personality, behavior, and the environment must be understood as a system of forces that _______ influence one another
C. Mutually
Shoda, Mischel, and Wright’s (1996) research supported the CAPS model by demonstrating that behavior varied across
B. Situations
In Shoda, Mischel, and Wright’s (1996) research, the distinctive patterns of within person variability in behavior were called
A. Behavioral signatures
The effects of modeling run counter to the Skinnerian belief that individuals must be directly ______ for learning to occur
C. Reinforced
In one of his “Bobo doll” studies, Bandura (1965) manipulated whether children were offered incentives for modeling a target’s behavior. He did this to demonstrate the distinction between acquisition and _______
B. Performance
