Which of the following is true of social cognitive theory?
A) It focuses on observable behavior and the situations in which behavior occurs.
B) It focuses on learning by observation.
C) It does consider personal variables to be important to understand people.
D) It does not see people as influencing their environment.
B
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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it is impossible to bike or take the bus," which illustrates the strategy of a. changing her attitude. b. changing her behavior. c. adding consonant thoughts. d. reducing the amount of her perceived choice.
The three stages of prenatal development occur in the following order:
a. fertilization, embryonic, fetal c. fertilization, fetal, neonate b. germinal, embryonic, fetal d. neonate, fetal, germinal
Which of the following is most true about cultural differences in social thinking?
a. Although everyone uses schemas to understand the world, the content of those schemas is influenced by the culture in which they live. b. Schemas influence what people notice in the world, but have no influence on what they remember. c. Schemas influence what people remember, but have no influence on what they notice in the world. d. Culture has no influence on automatic thinking.