In a study which examined the link between locus of control and age, Brandtstadter and Rothermund found that:
a. many elderly people maintain an internal orientation by adjusting their goals to make them fit the reality of their situations.
b. many elderly people become very external as they create new goals for themselves that unfortunately are unattainable
c. middle-aged adults become very internally oriented as they ponder the inevitability of their death
d. many adolescents force themselves to create goals that are unworkable so they can be very dissatisfied with their lives.
a
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What aspect of the Social Cognitive Theory is described here: ______ is a person’s belief that they have behavioural competence in a particular situation (‘I can do it’). ______ is related to whether or not an individual will undertake particular goal-directed activities (‘I will do it’), the amount of energy that he or she will put into their effort (‘I want to do it’) and the length of time that the individual will persist in striving to achieve a particular goal (‘I need to do it’).
A. Self-motivation B. Self-belief C. Self-belief D. Self-esteem
Restitution and positive practice are two types of overcorrection
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
You are feeling a great deal of fear, the brain site most likely involved is the
a. midbrain. b. left hemisphere. c. right hemisphere. d. amygdala.
REM sleep can first be recorded in humans a. prior to birth
b. about 2 weeks after birth. c. about 6 weeks after birth. d. at about 1 year of age.