According to Bandura, a person’s belief that s/he can successfully carry out courses of action that are required to deal with various challenging situations is the person’s sense of ________.
a. self-efficacy
b. locus of control
c. expectancy
d. self-expectancy
Answer: a. self-efficacy
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The automatic system is to quick feelings as the deliberate system is to ____
a. full-blown emotions b. unconscious emotions c. uncontrollable emotions d. lack of emotions
Bryan is working on his swimming pool because there are a lot of leaves floating on the top of the water. He enjoys the process of skimming the water with a net, and describes it as a meditative process. He gets fully engrossed in this serene activity, and sometimes feels detached and relaxed while he is doing it. Psychologists might refer to this state of serenity as
A. satiety. B. flow. C. tranquility. D. drive.
A cognitive interview involves
a. reinstating the context and reporting everything. b. assessing the duration and capacity of the witness's Long-Term Memory to see if he or she is capable of providing valid testimony. c. revisiting the scene of the crime under hypnosis. d. All of these
Early developmentalists focused their attention on
a) infancy to preschool years. b) preschool to adolescence. c) infancy and adolescence. d) adolescence and adulthood.