BCOR 370 END OF COURSE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔behavior-focused strategies - ✔✔self-observation: heighten awareness of it
self-goal setting: more effective when challenging
self-rewards: ?
*self-correcting feedback: (self-punishment)
*practice
*self-cueing: reminders
✔✔natural reward strategies - ✔✔~build more pleasant and enjoyable features into a
given task or activity
~focus attention on the naturally rewarding aspects of the task
Ex: Mary Poppins "spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down"
*Find the element of fun in any job or chore
✔✔Constructive thought strategies - ✔✔*thought patterns
✔✔opportunity thinking - ✔✔a focus on worthwhile challenges, opportunities and
constructive approaches to difficult and unpleasant situations
✔✔obstacle thinking - ✔✔a focus on reasons to GIVE UP and retreat from problems
and difficulties
ex: Thomas Edison
✔✔self-talk - ✔✔what we covertly tell ourselves
Ex: The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
✔✔mental imagery - ✔✔the creation and symbolic experience of behavioral outcomes
prior to actual performance
ex: Mary Lo Ret (gymnast)
✔✔beliefs & assumptions - ✔✔irrational, inaccurate, or dysfunctional beliefs &
assumptions can result in distorted thought processes that hinder personal
effectiveness and often lead to depression
✔✔"people aspects of management" - ✔✔individual behavior, team, motivation,
leadership, communication
✔✔Ex: survival run (Harry & Mike) - ✔✔blind man running with friend
~demonstrate all people aspects of management
*planning
*communication
*leadership (Mike-leader; Harry-follower)
*motivation
, *teamwork
✔✔Why understand behavior? - ✔✔explain, predict, direct
✔✔behavioral view - ✔✔people's behavior is shaped by external reinforcers
✔✔classical conditioning - ✔✔positive stimula; neutral stimula
Ex: meat vs. dog
✔✔operant conditioning - ✔✔rewards/punishment
~reinforce behavior
✔✔cognitive view - ✔✔shaped by mental process "thinking process"
✔✔reinforcement theory - ✔✔behavior determined by environmental factors
Stimulus -> response -> consequence -> future response
✔✔social cognitive theory - ✔✔*
✔✔self-efficacy - ✔✔confidence a person has to perform a task
✔✔self-regulation - ✔✔*
✔✔vicarious learning - ✔✔watch other people do a task, but you learn from it.
ex: sports-watching MBA finals, shooting bball to better yourself
✔✔triadic reciprocal model - ✔✔look at notes for model****
✔✔perception - ✔✔the process of interpreting one's environment
✔✔personality - ✔✔stable and unique pattern of traits, characteristics and resulting
behaviors that gives an individual his or her identity
✔✔The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - ✔✔Extraversion (E) vs Introversion (I)
Intuitive (N) vs Sensing (S)
Thinking (T) vs Feeling (F)
Judging (J) vs Perceiving (P)
✔✔lexical hypothesis - ✔✔all individual differences (traits and characteristics) are
encoded in language; over decades of factor analysis, five primary factors continue to
emerge
✔✔The Big Five Model of Personality - ✔✔1) Extraversion: outgoing, sociable, active
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔behavior-focused strategies - ✔✔self-observation: heighten awareness of it
self-goal setting: more effective when challenging
self-rewards: ?
*self-correcting feedback: (self-punishment)
*practice
*self-cueing: reminders
✔✔natural reward strategies - ✔✔~build more pleasant and enjoyable features into a
given task or activity
~focus attention on the naturally rewarding aspects of the task
Ex: Mary Poppins "spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down"
*Find the element of fun in any job or chore
✔✔Constructive thought strategies - ✔✔*thought patterns
✔✔opportunity thinking - ✔✔a focus on worthwhile challenges, opportunities and
constructive approaches to difficult and unpleasant situations
✔✔obstacle thinking - ✔✔a focus on reasons to GIVE UP and retreat from problems
and difficulties
ex: Thomas Edison
✔✔self-talk - ✔✔what we covertly tell ourselves
Ex: The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
✔✔mental imagery - ✔✔the creation and symbolic experience of behavioral outcomes
prior to actual performance
ex: Mary Lo Ret (gymnast)
✔✔beliefs & assumptions - ✔✔irrational, inaccurate, or dysfunctional beliefs &
assumptions can result in distorted thought processes that hinder personal
effectiveness and often lead to depression
✔✔"people aspects of management" - ✔✔individual behavior, team, motivation,
leadership, communication
✔✔Ex: survival run (Harry & Mike) - ✔✔blind man running with friend
~demonstrate all people aspects of management
*planning
*communication
*leadership (Mike-leader; Harry-follower)
*motivation
, *teamwork
✔✔Why understand behavior? - ✔✔explain, predict, direct
✔✔behavioral view - ✔✔people's behavior is shaped by external reinforcers
✔✔classical conditioning - ✔✔positive stimula; neutral stimula
Ex: meat vs. dog
✔✔operant conditioning - ✔✔rewards/punishment
~reinforce behavior
✔✔cognitive view - ✔✔shaped by mental process "thinking process"
✔✔reinforcement theory - ✔✔behavior determined by environmental factors
Stimulus -> response -> consequence -> future response
✔✔social cognitive theory - ✔✔*
✔✔self-efficacy - ✔✔confidence a person has to perform a task
✔✔self-regulation - ✔✔*
✔✔vicarious learning - ✔✔watch other people do a task, but you learn from it.
ex: sports-watching MBA finals, shooting bball to better yourself
✔✔triadic reciprocal model - ✔✔look at notes for model****
✔✔perception - ✔✔the process of interpreting one's environment
✔✔personality - ✔✔stable and unique pattern of traits, characteristics and resulting
behaviors that gives an individual his or her identity
✔✔The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - ✔✔Extraversion (E) vs Introversion (I)
Intuitive (N) vs Sensing (S)
Thinking (T) vs Feeling (F)
Judging (J) vs Perceiving (P)
✔✔lexical hypothesis - ✔✔all individual differences (traits and characteristics) are
encoded in language; over decades of factor analysis, five primary factors continue to
emerge
✔✔The Big Five Model of Personality - ✔✔1) Extraversion: outgoing, sociable, active
