Exam 4: Choices and Actions

Dr. Mischel is conducting an experiment with young children. He tells each child that they have a choice to make: They can have a cookie right now, OR they can wait ten minutes and get two cookies. Dr. Mischel appears to be measuring ____.

According to the textbook, the two main drawbacks of plans are that ____ and ____.

Capacity for change is one of the key ingredients for successful self-regulation, and is essentially the same thing as ____.

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

When you are deciding between two apartments, assuming you can afford both of them and they are both adequate for your needs, what feature should you pay most attention to if you want to maximize your satisfaction with the apartment a year after you have moved in?

People who are suicidal tend to be especially low in self-awareness.

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 ____.

One of the common consequences of reactance is ____.

Personal projects, or personal strivings, are also known as ____.

Research on entity and incremental theorists has shown that they tend to make different kinds of attributions for other people's behaviors. Specifically, compared to entity theorists, incremental theorists tend to make more ____, for example suggesting that others' behaviors are the result of ____.

Research findings suggesting that people become less prosocial when induced to reject their belief in free will is interpreted as indicating that ____.

The common notion of willpower is known as ________________ by psychologists who study self-regulation.

Rosa has just been told she has a serious illness and visited with a specialist who has outlined a number of treatment options. If she is like most people, her next step will be to ____.

Joe has a big Spanish exam coming up next week. Will it help him if he visualizes himself "acing" the exam? What about if he visualizes himself studying really hard for the exam?

Do social psychologists believe that people have free will? How important is perceived free will or autonomy to people? What happens when people believe that their freedom of choice has been revoked?

What is self-regulation, and what are its three key components? What types of factors interfere with effective self-regulation?

Suicidal people tend to focus a lot on the future and how miserable it appears to be.

The so-called "fear of success" theory-the idea that many people fear being too successful at work lest they turn off potential romantic partners-____.

Suppose that you went out on two dates with someone from one of your classes. You were not crazy about the person, but you did not dislike the person either. You thought that you would just wait and see how things turned out. Surprisingly, however, the person sent you an e-mail after your second date and wrote: "I just don't think we have good chemistry, but it was nice meeting you! Sayonara!" All of a sudden, the person becomes much more attractive to you. You wonder what you did wrong, and you strategize about how to get another chance. You are most likely experiencing ____.

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.