Exam 14: The Behavioral Social Learning Approach: Relevant Research

Researchers investigating the observational learning of gender-role behaviors find that boys imitate male models instead of female models

Although there are exceptions, researchers looking at locus of control and depression typically find

According to Bandura's model, children can learn aggressive behaviors even when they

The original learned helplessness experiments placed dogs in a harness where they were exposed to electric shocks. Later, the dogs were placed in a shuttle-box where they experienced more shocks. The dogs that exhibited learned helplessness

Which of the following accounts for the longer duration of depression relative to the duration of learned helplessness effects?

Todd is having difficulty at work and has failed to please his boss on each of the last three projects he has been assigned. He begins to feel as if there is nothing he can do to turn things around. Soon, he starts to feel there is also nothing he can do about some of the difficulties he has been having with members of his family. He starts to act withdrawn and unmotivated most of the time. Todd seems to be suffering from

Which of the following has research found to be true of those with a higher internal locus of control?

A person who takes a gender-role scale and is typed as masculine is

According to Rotter's original model, individual differences in locus of control are most likely to affect behavior when

Studies of achievement have shown that those with a higher external locus of control

In the original learned helplessness model, people were said to experience learned helplessness when they

Controlled laboratory research on observational learning of aggression typically requires participants to __________and then receive the opportunity to act aggressively.

Behaviorists and social learning theorists maintain gender differences are the result of a life-long process called identity formation.

Investigations of the impact of exposure to violence have shown the amount and kind of __________predicts how aggressive they are later.

Children in one study were given an opportunity to imitate an aggressive model after watching a videotape of the model. The researchers found that the aggressive behavior was most likely to be imitated when the model used a toy. How did they describe this effect?

Which of the following inventories is among the more popular assessment tools for gender-role research?

Marius takes a gender-role scale that is based on the androgyny model of gender type. The results will place in in one of__________ different groups.

A large number of studies have examined the relationship between watching aggressive television and acting aggressively. Although there are some exceptions, most of this research finds

According to studies of achievement and locus of control, someone who has a higher external locus in college is likely to have

When suicidal patients were asked to relive the events that took place before an attempted suicide, they