An Individual's Strong Belief That He or She Can Successfully

question 71

Multiple Choice

An individual's strong belief that he or she can successfully accomplish a specific task or outcome is referred to as:

• A) Locus of control
• B) Self-confidence
• C) Self-efficacy
• D) Perceptual selectivity
• E) Cognitive dissonance

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the range or spread of a group of numbers.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding all values together and dividing by the number of values, a central measure of location in statistics.

Continuous Random Variable

A random variable that can take any value in a continuum or uncountable range.

P(x > a)

The probability that a random variable x will take a value greater than a specified number a.