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The theories of Rotter and Mischel are -directed, meaning that they see people as being guided by their expectations of the future.
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As an interactionist, Rotter believes that a combination of environmental and variables are responsible for behavior.
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Any condition that moves a person toward a defines Rotter's empirical law of effect.
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Behavior refers to the likelihood that a given behavior will occur in a particular situation.
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People's expectation of being reinforced is called their
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Behavior potential is a function of both value and expectancy.
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External includes events, conditions, or actions that our culture values.
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Rotter sees people as animals whose perception of events are more important than the events themselves.
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The need to be free of the domination of others is called .
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Need refers to the possible occurrence of a set of functionally related behaviors directed toward the satisfaction of the same or similar goals.
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Internal control of reinforcement is a expectancy.
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Rotter sees behavior as those actions that fail to move a person closer to a desired goal.
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Mischel proposed a view of personal dispositions that suggests that behavior is caused by people's perception of themselves in a particular situation.
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The paradox refers to the observation that many people believe that behavior is stable from one situation to another despite evidence that it is not.
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Mischel and Shoda's cognitive- personality system suggests that behavior reflects stable patterns of variation
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Intelligence is a variable and may be one reason why traits are as consistent as they are.
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Our strategies enable us to categorize information from external stimuli.
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Mischel's cognitive-affective personality system suggests that behavior is largely shaped by an interaction of personality traits and the situation.
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Behavior expectancies refer to people's guesses about the results of their behavior.
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Rotter's concept of of control is one of the most frequently researched areas in psychology.





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