How are Seligman’s concepts of explanatory style different from Rotter’s concepts of external and internal locus of control?
What will be an ideal response?
Seligman’s concept of explanatory style is different from Rotter’s concepts of locus of control in that Seligman’s concept is about judgments about causes of events and Rotter’s concept is about rewards and punishments.
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Which is true regarding parent-adolescent relationships?
a. Interactions in childhood have no impact on an adolescent's relationship with his of her parents. b. The conflict level between teens and parents has grown dramatically during the past few decades. c. The best way to describe the typical parent-child relationship from the teen years through middle age is a roller coaster of big highs and great lows. d. Most adolescents respect their parents.
Joy just learned to speak French, but she notices that sometimes when speaking Spanish to her friends French words come to mind. What is this an example of?
a. retroactive interference c. proactive interference b. repression d. method of savings
In Berkley's 1997 review, she indicated that "the most striking feature of sex
differences in reported pain experience is…" a. women's greater sensitivity to pain b. women's better discrimination between painful stimuli c. men's higher pain thresholds d. men's lower pain thresholds e. the apparent overall lack of them
How would a social-learning theorist describe the acquisition of gender roles? Provide three examples of how the process works.
What will be an ideal response?