Exam 4: Behavior Control: the Self in Action

Research on decision-making indicates that there are two main steps in making choices. They are ____.

Gisele has applied to a very competitive graduate program. She knows that a faculty committee meets for several days to make decisions about who to admit. Based on research, the faculty committee will be making their best decisions ____.

Goal shielding is the ability to block off consciousness from thinking about one goal to allow a person to focus on the immediate goal at hand.

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

When people are setting goals, the core question is, ____. When people are pursuing goals, the core question is, ____.

Thanh despises his job. His coworkers are, at best, annoying and more often, obnoxious and offensive. His supervisor is a narcissistic bully and the pay does not begin to make up for how terrible the conditions are. Thanh comforts himself by reminding himself that he can quit and work as a freelance web site designer if he wants to. This is consistent with the ____ effect.

People rarely use habits.

Research suggests that when athletes who are preparing for a big game visualize themselves training really hard for the game, they ____; when they visualize themselves actually winning the game, they ____.

Martina is studying for her calculus exam.  She needs to write a paper for another class, too, but while she is studying for her calculus class, her mind shuts off the paper so that she can focus on her math.  Martina is experiencing ____.

Research shows that when making decisions, MOST people are more interested in ____ as opposed to ____.

The idea that many people have a(n)"________________," and therefore sabotage their careers, has received no empirical support.

Do people usually think in optimistic or overly ambitious ways when they are setting goals or striving to achieve goals?

Johanna had a terrible car accident that left her a quadriplegic. She is terribly depressed and believes that she creates work for others that she does not wish to have to rely on. Which factor below best describes why Johanna might be at risk for suicide?

If Allison believes that intelligence is something that you are "just born with," then it would be correct to say that she has an entity theory of intelligence.

According to MOST theories in social psychology, self-defeating behavior is ____.

The so-called "planning fallacy" is probably a result of the fact that people adopt a(n)____.

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

Suicide rates tend to be higher in places that generally have ____ climates. In general, suicide rates also tend to be higher during the ____.

Who is most likely to experience goal shielding?

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