At lunch, a friend responds to something you said with a sarcastic comeback. Whether you interpret your friend's remark as mean-spirited and hurtful, or as an example of your friend's cutting brand of humor, will be important in explaining your next response. Julian Rotter called this interpretation
a. self-efficacy.
b. the psychological situation.
c. the expectancy.
d. the reinforcement value.
B
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Emily is a late maturing girl. Compared to the early maturing girls, we can expect Emily to
a. be more likely to get in trouble in junior high. b. have greater peer prestige and adult approval in junior high. c. be more independent and more active in junior high. d. be less at risk for premature identity formation.
Conlon and his colleagues conducted an experiment and found that goal-focused individuals lost more weight than
did either achievement-focused or no-focus control individuals.These researchers also found that goal-focused individuals were more committed to reaching their goal weights. They interpreted their results as consistent with the findings of other studies on motivation and relevant to the design of health intervention programs. At this point in their research, Conlon and his associates are a. proposing a hypothesis. b. hypothesis testing. c. operationally defining terms. d. theory building.
The p-value provides the probability that
a. Our sample is representative of the population b. The effect we found occurred because of sampling error c. Our participants were treated ethically d. We chose the appropriate type of inferential statistic
During the resting potential, sodium channels open when:
a. there is an increase in sodium–potassium pump activity. b. an inhibitory postsynaptic potential occurs. c. the local potential becomes depolarized. d. the local potential becomes hyperpolarized.