Exam 4: Choices and Actions: the Self in Control

Some research suggests that when parents are extremely strict, their children become especially tempted to engage in deviant behaviours.For example, when parents forbid their teen children from going to parties, the teens report being even more attracted to parties and even more interested in attending.These findings are most consistent with ____.

According to the text, which of the following may best describe the relationship between habits and goals?

People who practise willpower 'exercises' find that they ____.

One advantage of being an incremental theorist rather than an entity theorist is that ____.

An old advertisement for Dove ice cream bars touted the bars as 'sinfully' delicious - so delicious that they should be banned or forbidden.The advertisement, which sought to make the bars seem as attractive to people as possible, was apparently playing on ____.

When people are asked to list their current goals and personal projects, the average list contains ____.

The so-called Zeigarnik effect refers to the tendency for people to be over ambitious when setting goals.

What factors tend to promote decision avoidance?

Suicide rates tend to be higher ____.

How do suicidal people tend to think about the future?

As described in the text, the standards against which people compare themselves ____ supplied by culture and ____.

The status quo bias is one form of ____ in decision-making.

Which statement most accurately describes how humans differ from other animals in terms of goals?

The term ________________ is used to describe active self-awareness, monitoring of one's behaviour, and comparison of one's behaviours to standards.

When people make short-range decisions (e.g., what they are going to do that week) rather than long-range decisions (e.g., decisions about things that are far off in the future), they tend to focus more on ____.

Monitoring oneself is one of the key ingredients in ____.

Research on the planning fallacy indicates that we tend to ____ when making predictions about ourselves and we tend to ____ when making predictions about other people.

Maria is studying for her calculus exam.She needs to write an essay for another class, too, but while she is studying for her calculus class, her mind shuts off the essay so that she can focus on her maths.Maria is experiencing ____.

The acronym that summarises the feedback loop of the self-regulation process is known as ________________.

In terms of their emotional state, the primary emotional state of people who are suicidal is a sort of ____.