Social cognitive theory can best be characterized as being concerned with learning:
A) Communication skills.
B) Socially appropriate behaviors.
C) Through observations of others.
D) From a sociological rather than psychological perspective.
C
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At the end of a long day, the manager of a child-care facility has a visitor, a young woman. The woman says that she and her family are strict vegetarians and wants the center to serve a vegetarian alternative to each day's lunch. The manager, annoyed because her own brother is always telling her about the evils of eating meat, explains that it is too much trouble to prepare a special meal for
only one child and angrily tells the woman that if she wants her child to have vegetarian meals, she should find another center. This manager is lacking in which kind of emotional intelligence? a. Self-management b. Social awareness c. Relationship management d. all of the above
According to William James the "I" refers to your:
a. Self-esteem b. Awareness of yourself as a subject c. Belief in your abilities d. All of the above
The functional behavioral assessment can help to identify events, activities, and situations associated with a student's problem behavior and to make ________ that can alter the frequency of such behaviors.
A. environmental adjustments B. medication decisions C. instructional decisions D. punishment decisions
A health psychologist was interested in the effects of smoking on the suppression of the immune system. Three groups of adults were exposed (in a highly ethical way) to either a cold virus, a flu virus or were left freezing wet in the outside in the middle of winter to catch pneumonia (no more than smokers deserve!). The severity of the disease was then measured as a percentage (0% = not contracted, 100% = contracted to a very severe degree). The psychologist also measured the number of cigarettes that each person smoked per day. The psychologist was interested in the differences in the severity of the three illnesses and the impact of cigarette usage. What technique should be used to analyse these data?
A. Two-way repeated-measures ANOVA. B. Two-way independent ANOVA. C. Two-way mixed ANOVA. D. One-way analysis of covariance.