Self-efficacy is defined by Bandura as a sense of self-esteem and competence in dealing with life's problems.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Ans: True.
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Amedi and coworkers (2005) used fMRI to investigate the differences between brain activation for perception and imagery. Their findings showed that when participants were ___________, some areas associated with nonvisual sensation (such as hearing and touch) were ___________.
A. using visual images; activated B. using visual images; deactivated C. perceiving stimuli; activated D. perceiving stimuli; deactivated
The memory for events and episodes that occur in one's life is called ________ memory
A) semantic B) working C) episodic D) reconstructive
Martin runs a white water rafting company. He has signs posted around the facility about the dangers of rafting, including death, and each customer is required to sign a waiver prior to participating. Despite these warnings, he always has plenty of customers for his rafting trips. Last week, however, one of his customers drowned during a trip, and he has barely had any business since. Which of the following offers the best explanation about the decline in his business?
A. Customers' perceptions of the riskiness of rafting decreased to the point that participation in the activity was no longer exciting. B. Customers' perceptions of the riskiness of rafting increased to the point that they were no longer willing to take the risk of participating. C. Customers are angry that they were not made fully aware of the possible risks of rafting before this accident occurred. D. Customers were only interested in finding out if the activity was actually dangerous and now that they know it is they are disinterested.
The use of evaluative tools to draw conclusions about psychological aspects of a person as those aspects existed at some point in time in the past is called
A. reactive assessment. B. retrospective assessment. C. remote assessment. D. retroactive assessment.