Exam 4: Choices and Actions

Aimee is moving to a new state and has looked at numerous houses. She is avoiding making a decision on which one to purchase because she knows once she chooses, she may find a better house she would have loved even more. What best explains Aimee's decision avoidance?

What is temporal discounting?

When people are asked to list their current goals and personal projects, the average list contains ____.

Social psychologists use the term ____ to self's capacity to alter its own responses.

People rarely use habits.

What theme(s) best explain decision avoidance?

Artie and his wife are making some important financial decisions and cannot seem to agree on what they should or should not do. The preference for avoiding certain types of risks is consistent with ____ theory.

Even though she is not in desperate need of boots, Ellen says that she would rather buy a pair of boots today (for $200) rather than wait two weeks, when they will be on sale for half the price. Ellen's decision most likely involves ____.

When pursuit of a goal has been interrupted, and people experience automatic, intrusive thoughts about that goal, they are said to be experiencing the ________________ effect.

The so-called Zeigarnik effect refers to the tendency for people to be over ambitious when setting goals.

What are the common mistakes people make when planning to achieve their goals and what psychological processes promote them?

According to the research on goal setting and achievement, if all of the students below had similar track records, which of them should we expect to perform BEST in school in the coming month?

One advantage of being an incremental theorist rather than an entity theorist is that ____.

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

When people are making choices between two options that differ both qualitatively and quantitatively, they tend to focus on ____.

According to the text, one key reason that people engage in self-defeating behaviors is because of ____.

Research on habits show that ____.

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

In social psychology, the "belief that one's own project will proceed as planned, even while knowing that the vast majority of similar projects have run late" is known as the ____.

Suicide rates tend to be higher ____.