Ch. 18 Rotter and Mischel PDF
Ch. 18 Rotter and Mischel PDF
Ch. 18 Rotter and Mischel PDF
Chapter 18
Rotter and Mischel: Cognitive Social Learning
Theory
Learning Objectives
5. Explain the difference between internal and external control and list
several misconceptions regarding internal and external control of
reinforcement.
Test Items
Fill-in-the-Blanks
True-False
____11. Interpersonal trust refers to the belief that people are naturally
good.
____16. Mischel was born in Vienna, at a time when Carl Jung was
living there.
____18. During the late 1920s, Hartshorne and May found that school
children who were honest in one situation were also honest in
other situations.
Multiple Choice
______8. The basic prediction formula is most useful for making specific
predictions. To make more generalized predictions, Rotter
introduced the concept of
a. needs.
b. cognition.
c. goals.
d. reinforcement value.
_____15. Low freedom of movement and high need value are most likely to produce
a. a favorable outcome.
b. guilt.
c. conflict.
d. performance accomplishments.
e. shame.
_____16. Compared with Bandura and Rotter, Walter Mischel placed more emphasis
on
a. unconscious motivation.
b. self-efficacy.
c. generalized expectancies.
d. interpersonal trust.
e. delay of gratification.
_____19. Mischel and Shoda's system that accounts for variability across situations
as well as stability of behavior within the person is called a
a. consistency paradox system.
b. cognitive-affective personality system.
c. trait and factor system.
d. variable disposition system.
_____22. Mischel and Moore found that children who were encouraged
to imagine real rewards while viewing pictures of rewards
a. were able to wait the entire test time for their rewards.
b. could not wait as long for the rewards as children who were
exposed to pictures of rewards.
c. could not wait as long for the rewards as children who were
exposed to the actual rewards.
d. could not wait as long as children who were exposed to no
rewards.
Short Answer
2. Name and briefly discuss Rotter's two most famous scales for
measuring generalized expectancies.
3. State Rotter's goal of therapy and name two ways of achieving this
goal.
Answers
1. goal 1. T 1. b
2. personal 2. F 2. e
3. goal 3. F 3. b
4. potential 4. T 4. c
5. expectancy 5. T 5. b
6. reinforcement 6. F 6. d
7. reinforcement 7. F 7. c
8. cognitive 8. T 8. a
9. independence 9. T 9. c
10. potential 10. F 10. c
11. generalized 11. F 11. c
12. maladaptive 12. T 12. d
13. conditional 13. F 13. b
14. consistency 14. F 14. d
15. affective 15. T 15. c
16. competency 16. F 16. e
17. encoding 17. F 17. d
18. stable 18. F 18. b
19. outcome 19. F 19. b
20. locus 20. F 20. a
21. T 21. a
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22. T 22. b
23. a
24. b