Assignment: Cognitive-affective personality

Assignment: Cognitive-affective personality

Assignment: Cognitive-affective personality

In the cognitive-affective personality system (CAPS), concepts such as self-efficacy and locus of control would most likely be placed in which of the following categories?
a. encoding strategies
b. expectancies and beliefs
c. goals and values
d. affects

45. The NEO-PI measure of personality was developed using what is called the ____________ approach to personality scale construction.
a. trait
b. rational-theoretical
c. behavioral
d. empirical

46. Cross-cultural research has found that people who live in _____________ cultures typically view their personalities as being relatively stable and assume that the environment is changeable. In contrast, people from _____________ cultures tend to view the environment as fixed and believe that their personalities are alterable.
a. tight; complex
b. individualistic; collectivistic
c. complex; simple
d. collectivistic; tight
47. Hans Eysencks theory of personality is most similar to which of the following approaches to
personality?
a. Big Five personality theorists
b. Raymond Cattells 16-factor theory
c. Carl Rogers humanistic theory
d. Albert Banduras social learning theory

48. According to the _______________, people tend to underestimate the impact of situational factors and overestimate the impact of personal factors when explaining other peoples behaviors.
a. self-serving bias
b. fundamental attribution error
c. self-perception theory
d. self-fulfilling prophecy

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49. When explaining our own behavior, _____________ occurs when we make more personal attributions for successes and more situational attributions for failures.
a. the self-serving bias
b. social facilitation
c. attributional polarization
d. the fundamental attribution error

50. Norman Triplett accurately predicted that bicycle-racing times would be faster when individuals raced ________. This effect is currently explained by the modern construct called _________.
a. separately; the primacy effect
b. separately; cognitive dissonance
c. in groups; social facilitation
d. in groups; group polarization

51. According to the text, _________ are sets of norms that specify how people in a particular social position are expected to behave.
a. social norms
b. social standards
c. social roles
d. social rules

52. The Behavioral Activation System:

a. is activated in response to potential rewards.
b. releases endorphins that limit our experience of physiological pain.
c. becomes active when we pursue a medium-difficulty challenge, but not easy or impossible
challenges.
d. is involved in the avoidance of stimuli that elicit pain.
53. The tendency for members of a group to suspend critical thinking because they are striving for agreement is specifically called:
a. normative social influence.
b. the norm of reciprocity.
c. groupthink.
d. group polarization.