Exam 4: Behavior Control: the Self in Action

Nikos has the opportunity to start his own business doing what he loves. However, to do this, he would have to liquidate all of his resources, including selling his home and emptying out his savings.  In the end, however, he decides that he has too much to lose and sticks with his day job, which is less fulfilling but offers a sure thing. Nikos is making his decision based on ____.

Recent research has demonstrated that men and women perceive certain behaviors differently: Men are more likely than women to assume that an innocent smile is a sign of flirtation, while women are more likely than men to assume that blatant flirtation is merely a sign of friendliness. These research findings are most consistent with ____.

Based on the information about suicide in the text, which of the following statements would be most likely to appear in a suicide note?

Research on positive illusions and goal-setting indicates that ____.

Research on proximal goals, distal goals, and goal hierarchies suggests that MOST people ____.

Realizing that the due date for several rather substantial research papers was approaching, Rob decides that he ought to get to work. However, somehow, whenever he sits down to work, he finds himself playing games, surfing the web, checking his Facebook, or doing just about anything other than working. In terms of the TOTE approach, Rob is having trouble with the ____ phase.

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

Which statement about willpower is accurate?

Mark is comparing two jobs. One pays $70,000 per year, but will be very stressful. The other pays $60,000, but will be less stressful. According to research presented in your text on Money Matters , Mark will ____.

Participants in a study of decision making considered two different ways of resolving a dispute with a neighbor. In one solution, the participant received $600 and the neighbor received $800. In the other solution, the participant and the neighbor each got $500.  When participants compared the two possible solutions, which option did they prefer?

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

Self-determination theory states that people have an innate need ____.

The tendency to give more weight to possible losses than to possible gains when making decisions that require trade-offs is known as ____.

Emotionally, suicidal people tend to be ________________.

The acronym TOTE-which stands for "Test, Operate, Test, Exit"-is shorthand for the processes involved in ____.

Suppose that you are out on a date. Although your date is somewhat entertaining, you keep having intrusive thoughts about the paper that you need to finish writing when you get home. These thoughts are evidence of the ____.

Freud's notion that most people have a "death wish" that impels them to pursue their own downfall and death ____.

According to ____ theory, when it comes to dating and mating members of the opposite sex, men will take advantage of every opportunity to pass along their genes.

Four-year-old Astrid 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. Astrid's father is making use of the idea of ____.

People who have suicidal tendencies tend to be ____.