According to Rotter's expectancy theory, a person's decision to engage in a behavior is determined by what the person expects to happen following the behavior and by
A. what cognitive person variables apply to the situation.
B. the conditions of worth the individual has created.
C. the value the person places on the outcome.
D. the relatively stable traits the individual possesses.
Answer: C
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Time sampling is often preferred over continuous observation because it is
a. more accurate. b. less reactive. c. more efficient. d. less intrusive.
What is one of the reasons an increasingly diverse workplace can be stressful?
a. Job competition is tougher. b. People have to develop skills to interact with people who are unfamiliar. c. People are worried about losing their jobs to someone of another gender or race. d. People have to work more with high decision control jobs.
The automatic ejection of painful memories and unacceptable urges from conscious awareness is called __________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
In a large study of children with injuries to the cerebral cortex that occurred before birth or in the first six months of life, researchers found that
A) language functioning was highly lateralized from birth to age 5. B) compared with spatial skills, language skills were more impaired after early brain injury. C) undamaged areas—in either the left or the right hemisphere—took over certain language functions. D) children never fully caught up in vocabulary or grammatical skills.