People Tend to Give Reasons Such as Unstable Causes, Judgments

question 19

True/False

People tend to give reasons such as unstable causes, judgments, and environmental conditions rather than recognize that their own behavior is contributing to the conflicts.

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Definitions:

Projective Techniques

Psychological assessment tools that use ambiguous stimuli to elicit responses that reveal aspects of an individual's personality.

Reinforcers

Stimuli that increase the likelihood of a behavior being repeated by providing a consequence that is desirable to the individual.

Human Behavior

encompasses the wide range of behaviors exhibited by humans and is influenced by culture, attitudes, emotions, values, ethics, authority, rapport, hypnosis, persuasion, coercion, and genetics.

Extinction

In behavior psychology, the process where a conditioned response decreases in frequency and eventually disappears when the reinforcement is withdrawn.