According to Rotter's locus of control approach to personality, a person's behavior depends on
A) income expectancy plus internal schema for the situation.
B) internal personality schemas and how they react with the world.
C) outcome expectancy plus reinforcement value.
D) outcome variables plus internal needs.
E) factors that are too complicated to explain and should not be studied.
C
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What was the primary emphasis of Heinz Kohut's self-psychology?
a. The formation of the self-concept and the crucial attributes of the self that allow one to progress toward health. b. The importance of the collective unconscious. c. Striving to overcome feelings of inferiority and a drive toward self-actualization. d. The way in which defensive actions of the ego determine our behaviors.
Psychoanalysts would most likely predict which of the following outcomes in adulthood for a child who was severely punished every time he dirtied his diapers?
A) A tendency to be athletic ("run away") B) A tendency toward alcoholism (drown stress) C) A tendency toward being overweight (full load) D) A tendency to seek out many and varied sexual partners (dirty) E) A tendency to save things, like a "pack rat" (stingy)