Exam 12: Cognitive Topics in Personality

In the context of pain tolerance and sensation reducing/augmenting,Clapper (1992)found that compared with augmenters,reducers _____.

The ability to control one's impulses is considered an aspect of _____ intelligence.

Individuals who blame themselves and their own lack of skills for their poor grades most likely have a(n)_____ explanatory style.

In Albert Bandura's cognitive social learning theory,which of the following concepts refers to the belief that one can execute a specific course of action to achieve a goal?

The process of making sense of,or explaining,various events in the world is referred to as _____.

Personal Projects Analysis often addresses:

A women who concludes that all men are untrustworthy after she finds her husband to be unfaithful most likely has a(n)_____ explanatory style.

_____ tend to be more sociable than _____.

According to Witkin and Goodenough (1977),field-independent people _____.

_____ describes the transformation of sensory input into mental representations and the manipulation of these representations.

According to Herman Witkin (1977),which of the following college majors is most likely to be favored by field-dependent students?

In a study of 100 police officers in simulated high-stimulation settings,Vrij,van der Steen,and Koppelaar (1995)predicted that field-independent officers were most likely to:

A pessimistic explanatory style is described as a style that emphasizes _____ causes for negative events.

Some researchers feel that the separate abilities referred to as multiple intelligences by Gardner are correlated enough with each other to:

_____ intelligence is a term that refers to a single broad factor of intelligence.

The concept of intelligence that emphasizes educational attainment,how much knowledge a person has acquired relative to others in his or her age cohort,is known as _____ intelligence.

A man who recalls that a cup of milk contains 130 calories when pouring a glass of milk is said to be engaging in:

Which of the following statements is true about an external locus of control?

The Rod and Frame Test (RFT)devised by Herman Witkin-in which a participant sits in a darkened room and is instructed to watch a glowing rod surrounded by a glowing square frame-found that field-dependent people:

_____ is an intellectual position grounded in the notion that reality is constructed,that every person and certainly every culture has a version of reality that is unique,and that no single version of reality is any more privileged than another.