You are about to undergo delicate brain surgery that requires great skill on the part of the surgeon. As the surgical team wheels you into the operating room, you hope the surgeon has a high level of _______
a) ego
b) extraversion
c) self-efficacy
d) superego
ANS: C, Self-efficacy refers to one's perception of how effective a behavior will be in any particular circumstance, and is related to confidence.
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Some of the most prominent modern theories of the mood disorders focus primarily on cognitive factors. You learned in Chapter 9 that some theorists believe the experience of emotion is heavily influenced by cognitive factors. In what ways do some of these cognitive theories of emotion agree with theories about cognitive factors in the etiology of the mood disorders?
What will be an ideal response?
Lucia has always been what some researchers call a cooperator; that is, someone who gives freely of her time, her money, and so forth, usually irrespective of the behavior of others. Cooperators, though small in number in society, are very important because most people are ____
a. ?free riders who do not cooperate b. ?reciprocators who cooperate only after seeing others do so c. ?free riders who cooperate only after seeing others do so d. ?reciprocators who do not cooperate
Whenever Marian listens to the oldies radio channel, memories of her high school dances and riding around with friends on Saturday night with the "radio blasting" come flooding back in detail. Marian is experiencing
a. redintegration. b. eidetic imagery. c. echoic memories. d. semantic memories.
The Crutchfield situation is to __ as the Asch situation is to ___.
a. public; private b. weak; strong c. minority; majority d. task focused; relationship focused e. normative; informational