When attempting to learn to play football, Farve has great difficulty in throwing the odd-shaped ball. After several bad passes, he decides that he has no talent for football and will never be any good at it. Farve's behavior provides an example of _____ goals
a. performance
b. mastery
c. internal
d. external
a
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At times, individuals decide to terminate therapy at a time the therapist feels is premature and at a point when therapy is about to make significant progress. This is an example of
a. interpretation. b. repression. c. transference. d. resistance.
Teresa really liked and admired her sister Valerie. Valerie was a very good volleyball player, and Teresa felt that she herself was not very good at volleyball. However, when Teresa played volleyball, she started to act and talk like Valerie. Which defence mechanism did Teresa use when she played volleyball?
A) identification B) projection C) displacement D) sublimation
Your best friend is always in trouble at home because she does not remember to do her homework, turn in class assignments, or to do the things her mother asked her to do after school
She is always late for school because she constantly forgets to bring what she needs for the day. You have been studying memory in psychology class. What techniques for better encoding and retrieval of information can you share with her? What will be an ideal response?
Allport referred to a trait that dominates an individual, exercising a strong, unifying
influence on behavior, as a. primary. b. central. c. cardinal. d. defining. e. totalizing.