After reading Chapter 18, you should be able to: - List Rotter's four variables of prediction and briefly explain each.
- Discuss Rotter's basic prediction formula and its uses.
- List and give examples of Rotter's categories of needs.
- Discuss Rotter's generalized expectancies and their measurement.
- Explain the difference between internal and external control and list several misconceptions regarding internal and external control of reinforcement.
- Discuss Mischel's conditional view of personal dispositions.
- Critique Mischel's notion of the consistency paradox.
- Discuss Mischel and Shoda's cognitive-affective view of personality.
- List and discuss Mischel and Shoda's cognitive-affective units.
- Discuss research on Rotter's locus of control model.
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