Exam 13: Understanding Individual Behaviour

After seeing a behavior in social learning situations, a person can learn by performing the behavior. This is known as ________.

The "Arab millennial" generation can be defined as the individuals born from the late 1970s to 2000.

If you believe that you control your own destiny, then your personality would be described as having a(n) ________.

________ is the failure to report to work.

When a behavior is followed by something pleasant, it is called ________.

A biologist would be a good occupational match for what personality type?

According to Holland's social scale, becoming a lawyer would be a good job match for someone who is ________.

The Big Five Model found that calm and secure workers performed better than nervous ones.

When a model's influence depends on how well an individual remembers the model's behavior, we call this ________.

When people judge someone on the basis of the perception of a group they are a part of, they are using the shortcut called ________.

An Interesting Group (Scenario) Ruba has her hands full. She recently took over managing the technical support group at her company and immediately noticed that her supervisors represent an unusual collection of personalities. She was having a problem understanding them and called the human resource department who referred her to a local psychologist. The psychologist suggested that she do some "low-key" testing. Ruba agreed, as she felt she had no other way of understanding her supervisors. The testing was completed and Ruba reviewed the results of the information. -Though clearly capable, Mariam does not seem to like herself. Her results indicate an unwillingness to take risks in job selection, and she seems very susceptible to evaluations from other people. Together, these findings indicate that Mariam is ________.

Operant conditioning argues that behavior is a function of its consequences.

Cognitive dissonance theory seeks to explain the correlated relationship between the affective, cognitive, and behavioral components of attitudes.

An Interesting Group (Scenario) Ruba has her hands full. She recently took over managing the technical support group at her company and immediately noticed that her supervisors represent an unusual collection of personalities. She was having a problem understanding them and called the human resource department who referred her to a local psychologist. The psychologist suggested that she do some "low-key" testing. Ruba agreed, as she felt she had no other way of understanding her supervisors. The testing was completed and Ruba reviewed the results of the information. -Bassam, her assistant manager, seems to always maintain an emotional distance from others and others from him. He is self-described as "pragmatic," and the test indicates that he believes that the "ends justify the means," descriptions that are consistent with characteristics of ________.

Studies on youth in the Arab world have found that they ________.

Which of the following cases contains an element that may lead a politician to correct cognitive dissonance?

________ theory explains how we judge people differently depending on what meaning we attribute to a given behavior.

Behavior is shaped by systematically reinforcing each successive step that moves the individual closer to the desired behavior

Recent reports about Arab youth indicate that religion is important to many of them, and that their ties with religious institutions are getting stronger.

In ________, the observer's perception of others is influenced more by the observer's own characteristics than by those of the person observed.