1. "Proxy agency" means:
a. the same thing as "collective agency"
b. an approximation to agency
c. an agent who is proximal to oneself
d. enlisting others to help control
circumstances affecting one's life
2. How do people react to a model's behavior?
a. they turn it over in their heads,
relating it to information they already have
b. they passively soak it up
c. they absorb it, as in osmosis
d. they mimic it, and in the process,
learn it, integrate it, and prepare to use it
3. Response facilitation refers to
a. processes that make a response
easier to perform
b. facilitating the responses of others
as they perform those responses
c. old responses being disinhibited
as a result of watching a model's performance
d. people facilitating the responses
of other people in a reciprocating process
4. Intrinsic motivation refers to
a. desire for intrinsic rewards
b. motivation originating outside
the individual
c. motivation at the top of the hierarchy
of motivations
d. motivations with especially great
longevity
5. Which is most likely to increase the impact of a model's
behavior on observers?
a. the degree to which the behavioral
performance is emphatic
b. whether the model is rewarded for
the behavioral performance
c. how long it takes the model to
perform the behavior
d. the magnitude of the model's behavior
6. A phobia is
a. a fear of something scary
b. a problem for most people
c. a very minor psychological disorder
d. an irrational fear
7. Which of the following was an item found on the behavioral
avoidance test the Bandura et al spider phobic study?
a. stepping on a spider
b. allowing a spider to crawl on subjects'
laps
c. subjects imagined that a spider
was eating them
d. pretending that a spider was not
present
8. Which of the following is an accurate statement about
social cognitive theory?
a. the cognitive element is more important
than the social element
b. the social element is more important
than the cognitive element
c. it is more relevant to neuropsychology
than any other theory covered in this text
d. it is on the cutting edge of the
cognitive movement in psychology
9. All of the following are attempts at self-influence,
except one. Which is NOT an attempt at self-influence?
a. bribing others to praise oneself
b. self-praise
c. acceptance of challenge
d. valuation of personal standards
10. What do many famous and acclaimed writers have in
common (Bandura)?
a. almost all became rich during their
lifetimes
b. many of them were repeatedly rejected
by publishers before their writings were finally writings published
c. most were scorned in their own
lifetimes
d. many of them were neurotic or psychotic,
conditions that made the creative artists they became