UNDS finals 1st sem part 2

Question 1

Self-Efficacy Theory is part of his Social Cognitive Theory (or Social Learning Theory) which is a fundamental to positive psychology.

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Albert Bandura

Question 2

is commonly defined as the belief in one’s capabilities to achieve a goal or an outcome.

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Self-Efficacy

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It is the ability to influence events that affect one’s life and control the way these events are experienced

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Self-Efficacy

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may more likely to challenge themselves with difficult tasks and be highly motivated to achieve the task.

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high Self efficacy

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They put high degree of effort and will do everything in their power to meet their commitments.

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high Self efficacy

Question 5

believe that they cannot be successful and will less likely to make extended effort and may consider challenging task to be avoided.

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low self-efficacy

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They have low aspirations and may result from poor academic performances.

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low self-efficacy

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students may more likely recover quickly from setbacks and ultimately are to achieve their personal goal.

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Self-efficacious

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Every experience is not always positive outcome. It may also bring failure.

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Mastery Experience

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experience’s will help us build resilience thru treating failure as learning opportunity and chance to reach our goal with different approach.

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Mastery Experience

Question 8

Observing those who practice high self-efficacy in their lives and who have reached their goals despite hardships can provide great motivation to a person.

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Social Modeling

Question 9

Bandura notes that it is necessary to draw role-models from one’s own social surroundings. In this age, internet and social media can be big source of employing role-models.

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Social Modeling

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It is about finding the right mentor.

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Social Persuasion

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Persuasion is about having other’s (role model) directly influence one’s self-efficacy by providing opportunities to master experience

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Social Persuasion

Question 12

Our own emotions, moods and physical state can influence our interpretation of self-efficacy

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States of Physiology

Question 13

Having feeling of tension, anxiety and weariness can lower our self-efficacy

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States of Physiology

Question 14

She is a psychologist from Stanford University

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Carol S. Dweck

Question 15

Another learning theory that explains persons acquiring of intelligence and realizing his/her goals is the

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Mindset Theory

Question 16

proposed that people hold for the nature and the cause of intelligence have several implications, specifically the way the person motivates himself to learn and practice.

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Dweck

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is a term used by Dweck to explain the assumptions, methods, or notations held by one or more people or group of people.

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Mindset

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It represents the cognitive processes activated in response to a given task.

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Mindset

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is an innate or in-born personality of a person. It is basically “who you are”, how God made you

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Fixed mindset

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where people believe that training and an effort to learn can change one’s qualities and trait

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Growth Mindset

Question 21

It is then said that acquiring a _______ is much better kind of mindset because it attributes success to learning and continuous practice.

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Growth Mindset

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the individual is not afraid of failure, it only directs the person to need to practice more, pay attention, invest on effort, and master new learning.

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Growth mindset

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The person then be more confident to face challenges and believe in him/herself that he will improve his performance.

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Growth mindset

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one of the main ingredient for a person to succeed

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Goal setting theory

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It is a powerful way of motivating people and motivating yourself.

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Goal setting theory

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pioneers a research in 1960s’ about setting goals. This theory was more known to work or industrial setting, much from where the SMART goal originated.

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Dr Edwin locke

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states that there is a relationship between how difficult and specific a goal was and the people’s performance task.

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Goal setting theory

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He found that specific and difficult goals led to better task performance than vague or easy goals.

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Dr edwin locke

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“Try Hard” or “Do your best”
“Try to get more than 80% correct” or “Try beating your best score”

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Goal Setting Theory

Question 30

Clear, measurable and unambiguous (specific) goals.

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Clarity

Question 31

Set a level of challenge to beat yourself with.

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Challenge

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The more harder the goal, the more commitment is required.

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Commitment

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Listen to feedback from people to provide opportunities to clarify expectations, adjust goal difficulty and gain recognition.

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Feedback

Question 34

The more complicated and demanding the role would give high level of motivation to a person.

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Task Complexity

Question 35

is person’s response to events that threaten them

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Stress

Question 36

is the non-specific response of the body to any demand placed upon it (Selye, 1926)

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Stress

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is an individual’s physiological and/or psychological reaction to the real and imagined demands of life

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Stress