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Rotter and Mischel: Cognitive Social Learning Theory
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1. List Rotter’s four variables of prediction and briefly explain each.

2. Discuss Rotter’s basic prediction formula and its uses.

3. List and give examples of Rotter’s categories of needs.

4. Discuss Rotter’s generalized expectancies and their measurement.

5. Explain the difference between internal and external control and list several misconceptions regarding internal and external control of reinforcement.

6. Discuss Mischel’s conditional view of personal dispositions.

7. Critique Mischel’s notion of the consistency paradox.

8. Discuss Mischel and Shoda’s cognitive-affective view of personality.

9. List and discuss Mischel and Shoda’s cognitive-affective units.

10. Discuss research on Rotter’s locus of control model.