Rotter And Mischel

Question 0

Humans interact with their meaningful environments

Human personality is learned

Personality has basic unity

Motivation is goal oriented

People are capable of anticipating events

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Rotters social learning theory

Question 1

Cognitive factors versus more than immediate results, expectations of future events

Answer 1

Overview of cognitive social theory

Question 2

Four variables mist be analyzed in order to make accurate predictions in any specific situation: behavior potential, expectancy, reinforcement value, psychological situation

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Predicting certain behaviors

Question 3

A particular response will occur at a given time and place in relation to it’s likely reinforcement

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Behavior potential

Question 4

Confidence that a particular reinforcement will follow a specific behavior in a specific situation

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Expectancy

Question 5

Persons preference for any particular reinforcement, internal versus external, value of an event is a function of ones expectation that a particular reinforcement will lead to future reinforcements

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Reinforcement value

Question 6

That part of the external and internal world to much a person is responding

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Psychological situation

Question 7

The potential for a behavior to occur in a particular situation in relation to a given reinforcement is a function of people’s expectancy that their behavior will be followed by that situation

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Basic prediction formula

Question 8

One must know peoples expectations based on similar past experiences that a given behavior will be reinforced

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Generalized expectancies

Question 9

Functionally related categories if behaviors. Recognition, dominance, independence, protection-dependence, love and affection, physical comfort. Three components are need potential, freedom of movement, need value

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Needs

Question 10

Attempts to measure the degree to much people perceive a causal relationship between their own efforts and environmental consequences

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Internal and external control of reinforcement scale (measuring generalized expectancies)

Question 11

Measures the extent to which a person expects the word or promise of another person to be true

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Interpersonal trust scale (measuring generalized expectancies)

Question 12

Fails to move a person closer to a desired goal, result to unrealistically high goals in combination with low ability to achieve them or inadequate skills

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Maladaptive behavior

Question 13

Goal is to achieve harmony between a clients freedom of movement and need value

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Psychotherapy

Question 14

Maladaptive behaviors follow from three categories of inappropriate goals: conflict between goals, destructive goals, and unrealistically lofty goals

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Changing goals (psychotherapy)

Question 15

Helping clients change low expectancies of success

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Eliminating low expectancies (psychotherapy)

Question 16

Believes that cognitive factors such as expectancies, subjective perceptions, values, and personal standards are important in shaping personality

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Mischels personality system

Question 17

Behaviors consistent versus not

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Consistency paradox

Question 18

The person, situation, and interaction between them

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Person-situation interaction

Question 19

Accounts for variability across situations as well as stability of behaviors within a person

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Cognitive-affective personality system

Question 20

Pattern of visibility that is consistent over time

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Behavior signature of personality

Question 21

If personality is a stable system that processes information about the situation, then as people encounter different situations, they should behave differently as those situations vary

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Behavior prediction

Question 22

Include all those stimuli that people attend to in a given situation

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Situation variables

Question 23

Encoding strategies, competences and self-regulatory strategies, subjective goals and values, affective responses. All permit people to interact with environment with some stability in behavior

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Cognitive-affective units

Question 24

People are goal-oriented, cognitive animals whose perceptions of events are more crucial than the events themselves

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Concept of humanity