PSY 435 Final Exam with correct answers
View of human nature (social cognition theory) - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔We come into the world as active agents expanding our constructs through
experiences and interacting with our environment
Competentsies - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Structural unit in SCT relating to
individual's ability to solve problems or perform tasks necessary to achieve
goals
Goals - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Desired future events that motivate the
person over extended periods of time and go beyond momentary influences
Expectancies - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔What the individual anticipates or
predicts will occur as a result of specific behaviors in specific situations (Kelly's
personal construct theory)
Self-regulation - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Psychological processes through
which people motivate their own behavior (AKA "self-control")
Delay of gratification - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Postponement of pleasure
until the optimum time (relates to self-regulation)
, Schemas - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Knowledgeable structures that we use to
bring order to what might otherwise be a chaotic jumble of stimuli
(synonymous with "constructs")
What motivates us? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Having goals, interacting with
the environment, through observational learning (behaviorism)
Growth and development - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Through social learning,
observation, and direct experience
Through enhancing self-efficacy skills and standards for self-regulation
Self-efficacy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Developed by Bandura
Belief in ourselves that we can accomplish certain tasks and that we have the
resources to cope in difficult situations
Emotion-focused coping - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Coping in which an
individual strives to improve their internal emotional strength perhaps by
emotional distancing or seeking social support
Problem-focused coping - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Attempts to cope by
altering features of a stressful situation
How do we develop a pathology? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Lack of self-
control (id vs. superego)
Extremes (potentially leads to anxiety, OCD)
Dysfunctional responses to our enviornment
View of human nature (social cognition theory) - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔We come into the world as active agents expanding our constructs through
experiences and interacting with our environment
Competentsies - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Structural unit in SCT relating to
individual's ability to solve problems or perform tasks necessary to achieve
goals
Goals - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Desired future events that motivate the
person over extended periods of time and go beyond momentary influences
Expectancies - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔What the individual anticipates or
predicts will occur as a result of specific behaviors in specific situations (Kelly's
personal construct theory)
Self-regulation - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Psychological processes through
which people motivate their own behavior (AKA "self-control")
Delay of gratification - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Postponement of pleasure
until the optimum time (relates to self-regulation)
, Schemas - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Knowledgeable structures that we use to
bring order to what might otherwise be a chaotic jumble of stimuli
(synonymous with "constructs")
What motivates us? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Having goals, interacting with
the environment, through observational learning (behaviorism)
Growth and development - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Through social learning,
observation, and direct experience
Through enhancing self-efficacy skills and standards for self-regulation
Self-efficacy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Developed by Bandura
Belief in ourselves that we can accomplish certain tasks and that we have the
resources to cope in difficult situations
Emotion-focused coping - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Coping in which an
individual strives to improve their internal emotional strength perhaps by
emotional distancing or seeking social support
Problem-focused coping - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Attempts to cope by
altering features of a stressful situation
How do we develop a pathology? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Lack of self-
control (id vs. superego)
Extremes (potentially leads to anxiety, OCD)
Dysfunctional responses to our enviornment
