THEORIES OF PERSONALITY OA EXAM 2
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◉ The idea that all knowledge comes from experience is called:
Answer: Empiricism.
◉ Punishment motivates transgressors to flaunt bad behavior.
Answer: Three of the four answers below are among the reasons
that punishers have to be careful when meting out punishments.
Which is the erroneous answer?
◉ Behavior
Answer: A person's environment is a direct result of her behavior.
◉ Reciprocal determinism
Answer: According to Bandura, the idea that persons, their
environments, and their behaviors all affect each other in a
constantly ongoing series of interactions.
◉ Efficacy expectations
,Answer: Advertising slogans like 'Just Do It' and 'You Can Do It!'
relate to this incarnation of social learning theory.
◉ Rewards and punishments
Answer: Parents, teachers, and bosses can prevent some behaviors
by using these.
◉ Reinforcement; punishment
Answer: If an animal or a person's behavior is followed by a
reinforcement, the behavior becomes more likely. If the behavior is
followed by a punishment, it becomes less likely.
◉ Learned helplessness
Answer: You feel fear when you have reason to think that danger is
impending and you know what the danger is. Anxiety, on the other
hand, comes about when the source of danger is unclear or when
you have no idea when the danger might actually arrive.
◉ Expectancy value theory
Answer: Before asking a cute classmate out for a date, you weigh
your odds: What are the chances I will be rebuffed, as opposed to
those that I will win a date?
◉ Habituation
, Answer: Many of us have gradually become less moved by the
graphic violence in movies and video games. In this, we are
experiencing a kind of learning called habituation.
◉ Behavior changes as the result of experience
Answer: Two stimuli repeatedly experienced together will
eventually elicit the same response. Additionally, behaviors followed
by pleasant outcomes tend to be repeated, while those followed by
unpleasant outcomes tend to be dropped.
◉ Respondent conditioning; operant conditioning
Answer: Respondent conditioning implies a kind of passive response
with no impact of its own; operant conditioning is when an animal
(including humans) learns to operate in its world in such a way as to
change it.
◉ Drive
Answer: A state of psychological tension that feels good when the
tension is reduced.
◉ Primary drives; Secondary drives
Answer: Primary drives include those for food, water, physical
comfort, avoidance of physical pain, sexual gratification, and so on.
Secondary drives include positive drives for love, prestige, money,
and power, as well as the avoidance of fear or humiliation.
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◉ The idea that all knowledge comes from experience is called:
Answer: Empiricism.
◉ Punishment motivates transgressors to flaunt bad behavior.
Answer: Three of the four answers below are among the reasons
that punishers have to be careful when meting out punishments.
Which is the erroneous answer?
◉ Behavior
Answer: A person's environment is a direct result of her behavior.
◉ Reciprocal determinism
Answer: According to Bandura, the idea that persons, their
environments, and their behaviors all affect each other in a
constantly ongoing series of interactions.
◉ Efficacy expectations
,Answer: Advertising slogans like 'Just Do It' and 'You Can Do It!'
relate to this incarnation of social learning theory.
◉ Rewards and punishments
Answer: Parents, teachers, and bosses can prevent some behaviors
by using these.
◉ Reinforcement; punishment
Answer: If an animal or a person's behavior is followed by a
reinforcement, the behavior becomes more likely. If the behavior is
followed by a punishment, it becomes less likely.
◉ Learned helplessness
Answer: You feel fear when you have reason to think that danger is
impending and you know what the danger is. Anxiety, on the other
hand, comes about when the source of danger is unclear or when
you have no idea when the danger might actually arrive.
◉ Expectancy value theory
Answer: Before asking a cute classmate out for a date, you weigh
your odds: What are the chances I will be rebuffed, as opposed to
those that I will win a date?
◉ Habituation
, Answer: Many of us have gradually become less moved by the
graphic violence in movies and video games. In this, we are
experiencing a kind of learning called habituation.
◉ Behavior changes as the result of experience
Answer: Two stimuli repeatedly experienced together will
eventually elicit the same response. Additionally, behaviors followed
by pleasant outcomes tend to be repeated, while those followed by
unpleasant outcomes tend to be dropped.
◉ Respondent conditioning; operant conditioning
Answer: Respondent conditioning implies a kind of passive response
with no impact of its own; operant conditioning is when an animal
(including humans) learns to operate in its world in such a way as to
change it.
◉ Drive
Answer: A state of psychological tension that feels good when the
tension is reduced.
◉ Primary drives; Secondary drives
Answer: Primary drives include those for food, water, physical
comfort, avoidance of physical pain, sexual gratification, and so on.
Secondary drives include positive drives for love, prestige, money,
and power, as well as the avoidance of fear or humiliation.
