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1. Bandura’s _______________________ determinism model assumes that personality is shaped by an interaction of person, behavior, and environment.
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2. A ___________________ encounter is an unintended meeting of persons unfamiliar to each other.
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3. A ____________________ event is an environmental experience that is unexpected and unintended.
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4. If behavior were completely a function of the _________________, Bandura believes that it would be much more varied and less consistent.
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5. Bandura believes that ___________________ factors, such as memory and foresight, give some unity to personality.
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6. Self-____________________ refers to our beliefs about our capabilities to exercise control over events that affect our lives.
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7. __________________ expectations refer to the likely consequences of our behavior.
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8. Ordinarily, _____________________ is the strongest source of self-efficacy.
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9. Social _________________________ increases self-efficacy when we observe people of equal ability performing an activity.
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10. Social _________________________ increases self-efficacy when a trusted individual convinces us that we have the ability to perform an activity.
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11. High efficacy and a responsive _______________________ are the best predictors of a successful outcome.
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12. With __________________ agency, we rely on the work of other people to control those social conditions that affect our everyday living.
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13. __________________ efficacy is the level of confidence people have that their combined efforts will produce social change.
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14. _________________________ of internal control is used to justify to oneself a behavior that would normally be morally unacceptable.
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15. One form of disengagement is to blame the __________________.
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16. When an anarchist blows up a government building, kills more than 100 adults and children, and refers to the deaths of the children as “collateral damage,” he is using ____________________ labeling to disengage himself from the moral consequences of his actions.
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17. The core of observational learning is ________________________.
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18. People are most likely to model __________________ people.
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19. ____________________ is the first process governing observational learning.
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20. Bandura believes that people are motivated more by specific than by general _______________________.