Exam 16: Personality Processes: Perception, Thought, Motivation, and Emotion

Research has examined the degree to which individuals' optimistic and pessimistic strategies persist across various contexts. The results of this research suggest that ________.

Mrs. Garcia often invites her family and friends to her house for lunches and parties. She is also involved with the people in her church group and in the Parent-Teacher Association at her child's school. According to McClelland's view of motivations, Mrs. Garcia is high in ________ motivation.

According to research on goals across the life span, individuals who are near the end of their lives typically shift goals from ________.

People can talk much more easily about explicit goals than implicit goals.

An individual who experiences powerful feelings of both joy and sadness would score high on what personality dimension?

What is rejection sensitivity? How might rejection sensitivity become a self-fulfilling prophecy?

According to distinctions between types of idiographic goals, a ________ is something you think about, whereas a ________ is something you do.

Given that Rory works hard on his golf game and pursues excellence, he should score high in which of McClelland's primary goals?

What theorist is most closely identified with cognitive-experiential self-theory?

What idiographic goal term refers to long-term goals that organize broad areas of a person's life?

Which theorist developed the concept of personal constructs?

An Asian American who has just been primed with the image of a dragon is more likely to interpret ambiguous symbols according to ________.

People often report two or more personal strivings that are inconsistent with each other.

What goal-related term describes the ongoing motivation that persists in the mind until the goal is either attained or abandoned?

A need for ________ is NOT one of the primary goals proposed by David McClelland.

A strong, consistent, and stable tendency to experience positive and energizing emotions is the fundamental feature of what trait?

It seems to be easy to hold seven familiar phone numbers in short-term memory even though the actual phone numbers contain a total of 49 digits.

What are the two basic dimensions of the emotional circumplex model proposed by Averill?

A person with a judgment goal will respond to failure with a(n) ________ pattern of behavior.

Essential goals that almost everyone pursues are called ________ goals.