Introduction to Psychology 10th Edition by Rod Plotnik,Haig Kouyoumdjian

Exercise 3

According to Bandura, our personal beliefs regarding how capable we are of exercising control over events in our lives-for example, carrying out certain tasks and behaviors-is called (a) _____, which, in turn, affects our performance on a wide variety of behaviors. Mischel devised ways of measuring our ability to voluntarily postpone an immediate reward and persist in completing a task for the promise of a future reward, which is called (b) _____.