Jeff, who is 14, engages in rigorous tennis drills or competitive play at least four hours every day because he wants to master the sport and play on one of the best college teams in the country. His goal and behavior best illustrate the concept of:

Related Mcqs:

1. Mr. Choi’s therapist wants to help him become aware of his conflicting childhood feelings of love and hate for his parents. The therapist’s goal best reflects a primary aim of:

   A. operant conditioning techniques
   B. psychoanalysis
   C. cognitive therapy
   D. client – centered therapy

2. Sixteen-year-old Foster wants to spend a few years experimenting with different lifestyles and careers before he settles on who and want he wants to be foster’s behavior illustrates the identity status of:

   A. identity moratorium
   B. identity foreclosure
   C. identity achievement
   D. identity diffusion

3. A researcher wants to test the hypothesis that the number of bystanders affects the probability of helping behavior. She sets up three conditions, one with no bystanders, one with two bystanders and one with four bystanders. Which of the following is true?

   A. there is one independent variable having three levels
   B. there are three independent variables having one level each
   C. there is one independent variable and three dependent variables
   D. there is one independent variable having four levels

4. Rowena expects to be rewarded by her parents with a major present, such as a new car, if she graduates from college with honors. Her resulting hard work in college best illustrates the_________theory of motivation.

   A. instinct
   B. drive reduction
   C. incentive
   D. evolutionary

5. Natasha claimed that her failure to get “A’s” in all her college courses meant she was incompetent. Her therapist calmly challenged this assertion, commenting, “By your strange calculations, well over 90 percent of all college students are incompetent!” The therapist’s response was most typical of a(n)______therapist.

   A. eclectic
   B. psychoanalytic
   C. cognitive
   D. behavior

6. Despite huge legal costs and social disapproval, Mr. Lambers refuses to pay Income taxes because his conscience will not allow him to support a government that spends billion of dollars on military weapons. Mr. Lambers’ reasoning best illustrate Kohiberg’s______stage.

   A. concrete operational
   B. preconventional
   C. conventional
   D. postconventional

7. In order to help MR. Eberstadt overcome his addiction to alcohol, his therapist first attempted to discover whether the substance dependency was somehow a reaction on his wife’s behavior. The therapist’s concern is most likely to be characteristic of a:

   A. biomedical therapist
   B. psychoanalyst
   C. family therapist
   D. cognitive therapist

8. Rasheed watches as customer with at least 40 items lines up at his express checkout line. He decides the customer must be a real “idiot” to miss the sign that indicates Rasheed’s checkout line is an express line with a limit of 10 items. Rasheed’s attribution for the cause of the customer’s behavior is consistent with_________?

   A. drawing an illusory correlation
   B. false consensus effect
   C. the fundamental attribution error
   D. a defensive attribution

9. You and a friend play three hours of racquetball I. Afterwards, you are most likely to prefer:

   A. plain water
   B. a slightly salty liquid
   C. a beverage containing some alcohol
   D. milk

10. The determinant of achievement behavior that increase when a college student enrolls in a class that is required for graduation is:

    A. the probability of success
    B. the need to avoid failure
    C. the incentive value of success
    D. the fear of success