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

Exercise 1

The power of beliefs and ideas to change the way that we interpret situations and events is one of the basic assumptions of social cognitive theories. Rotter developed a scale to measure our belief about how much control we have over situations or rewards; he called this belief (a) _____. If we believe that we have control over situations and rewards, we are said to have an (b) _____ locus of control. In contrast, if we believe that we do not have control over situations and rewards and that events outside ourselves determine what happens, we are said to have an (c) _____ locus of control.