Exam 4: Choices and Actions: the Self in Control

Habits are primarily influenced by the ________________ system.

Perhaps the most widely recognised and important factor that interferes with successful monitoring (and thereby undermines successful self-regulation) is ____.

The human capacity for ____ offers the best explanation as to why humans kill themselves but nonhuman animals do not kill themselves.

Both reactance theory and self-determination suggest that a sense of ________________ is important to people, and that they will strive to achieve it.

Andile has mild autism spectrum disorder and participates in an applied behavioural analysis programme.Each day in school, he is allowed to decide the order in which he will work on his tasks, although the day's tasks have been selected for him, and which of several possible rewards he would like when he has completed each task.This approach is most consistent with ____ theory.

In social psychology, people who regard traits and abilities as fixed and stable are known as ____, while people who believe that it is possible to change and improve traits and abilities are known as ____.

People rarely use habits.

Self-determination theory suggests that most people need to feel at least some degree of autonomy and internal motivation.

The common notion of willpower is known as ________________ by psychologists who study self-regulation.

Research findings suggesting that people become less prosocial when induced to reject their belief in free will is interpreted as indicating that ____.

Many people do not invest in retirement plans - even though they are not broke, and could afford to put money aside.One explanation for this is the fact that people tend to engage in ____ when making decisions about how to manage their money.

Emotionally, suicidal people tend to be ________________.

When people are making decisions among several different choices (e.g., choosing a car to purchase), there are several patterns of irrational thought to which they commonly fall prey.Please identify and discuss three of these.

Entity theorists are more likely than incremental theorists to experience ________________.

Four-year-old Faith does not like to get dressed early in the morning to go to day care, so rather than simply telling her to put on the clothes he laid out the night before, her father has begun to lay out several outfits and, in the morning, asking her which outfit she wants to wear that day.Faith's father is making use of the idea of ____.

One of the biggest differences between attending to current concerns and engaging in long-term planning is that how people deal with current concerns is more dependent upon ____.

When experimental manipulations have induced people to reject their free will, they tend to ____.

Two key reasons that people engage in self-defeating behaviours are because of ____ and because of ____.

The tendency for people to place greater weight on the present over the future in decision-making is known as ____.

According to the text, do most psychologists today believe that people have free will?