You are trying to decide whether you should go to a friend's party. As you consider this, you remember that in the past, you have had fun at her parties. What did Julian Rotter call these considerations?

What will be an ideal response?


These considerations are called expectancies: what someone expects to happen based on past experiences that were rewarding.

Psychology

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Which of the following is NOT one of the symptoms of schizophrenia?

a. Hallucinations b. Alternation between personalities c. Loss of social behaviors d. Loss of emotional responses

Psychology

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a. 6 b. 8 c. 10 d. 12

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Dr. Ginesberg's lecture on attachment concludes that babies express behavior that makes it more likely they will form attachments to adults because, in the past, infants that expressed these behaviors were the infants who survived. Dr. Ginesberg is presenting a(n) ____ approach to attachment

a. sociocultural b. psychological c. anthropological d. evolutionary

Psychology