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Book: QUESTION 11.Your text discusses a case explained by Ellen Goodman, who uses the phrase ?time bulimic.? What is this a reference to?People who waste time by procrastinating.b.  People who are not productive.People who take up a lot of others? time.People who have difficulties in maintaining time commitments.0.5 points   QUESTION 21.What is at the core of the concept of self-efficacy?The view that good things will happen to you.An understanding that a bad outcome is subjective.Analyzing one?s capability to reach their desired goal.A belief that you can accomplish what you want.0.5 points   QUESTION 31.Which of the following statements best describes the social cognitive perspective?Humans affect their environment as much as their environment affects them.Humans are largely shaped by environmental forces.Humans actively shaped their lives rather than passively reacting to environmental forces.Human cognition is greater determined of our outcomes than our behaviors are.0.5 points   QUESTION 41.Which of the following people is most likely to fall victim to stereotype threat?A woman who is applying to get a math scholarship.A man who must write a paper for his sociology class.A woman who will give a speech at her high school graduation.A man who is taking an IQ test.0.5 points   QUESTION 51.What can be concluded from studies on the cultural differences in rating performance on math?The complexity of culture makes it difficult to understand academic performance.Culture is a factor in both the type of persuasion someone receives and modeling available.People from Western cultures have low self-efficacy due to a lack of similar models.Individuals from Eastern cultures continue to have higher self-efficacy even when performing poorly.0.5 points   QUESTION 61.Which two factors does the career counseling self-efficacy scale measure?general self-efficacy and academic self-efficacysocial self-efficacy and psychological self-efficacylearned self-efficacy and inherent self-efficacya counselor?s confidence in helping clients who have difficulties with career decisions0.5 points   QUESTION 71.What is the underlying factor that Betz and colleagues had in mind when developing self-efficacy scales?career decisionsparental involvementacademic investmentperceived confidence0.5 points   QUESTION 81.Which of the following people exemplifies characteristics that high levels of situation-specific self-efficacy can predict?Someone who has increased their happiness.Someone who has low levels of anxiety.Someone who has a lower pain tolerance.Someone who is unlikely to become divorced.0.5 points   QUESTION 91.What is negatively correlated with elevated self-efficacy?unhealthy behaviorseffective study skillsamount of exercisehealth-related behaviors0.5 points   QUESTION 101.Which term is defined as the extent to which we believe we can work together effectively to accomplish our shared goals?collective self-efficacygeneral self-efficacyindividual self-efficacyspecific self-efficacy0.5 points   QUESTION 111.What is the basis of the theory of learned optimism?Optimism is the belief that good rather than bad things will happen.People make attributions or explanations about the things that happen to them.When a route is blocked, people find alternate pathways to their goals.People succeed when they believe in their capabilities to produce desired effects.0.5 points   QUESTION 121.Which type of attributions do optimists tend to make for negative outcomes?internal, stable, and specificexternal, variable, and specificinternal, variable, and globalexternal, stable, and global0.5 points   QUESTION 131.Children who experience trauma and parental divorce are likely to have what type of explanatory style?pessimismdespairoptimism0.5 points   QUESTION 141.Which of the following traits has been shown to be a good predictor of satisfaction in interpersonal relationships?wisdomlearned optimismself-efficacy0.5 points   QUESTION 151.Why was The Life Orientation Test (LOT) revised?It overlapped with neuroticism.Adequate construct validity was not established.People who scored highly on the LOT also scored highly on the hope scale.It measured the same construct as the ASQ.0.5 points   QUESTION 161.Based on research about problem-solving and optimism in different cultures, who is most likely to demonstrate greater problem-solving skills while being pessimistic?a native American individualan African-American individuala Chinese-American individuala Caucasian-American individual0.5 points   QUESTION 171.People who use energetic personal self-talk statements such as ?I will keep going? are using which trait?self-esteemoptimismsubjective well-beingagency0.5 points   QUESTION 181.In childhood, what is considered crucial in imparting hope?academic achievementstrong attachmentfinancial stabilityhaving good friends0.5 points   QUESTION 191.Lopez explains how hope is created from memories, which involves the ______.amygdalahypothalamushippocampusprefrontal cortex0.5 points   QUESTION 201.Native Americans, Latinos, African-Americans, and Asian Americans tend to perceive time in a way where many things are conceptualized as happening at once with people, which is called ______.polychromicpolysequentialpolychromaticpolytemporal