A Professor Tells a College Class, "Everyone Has the Ability

question 36

Multiple Choice

A professor tells a college class, "Everyone has the ability to earn an A in this class, but you must exert maximum effort." This advice resembles

• A)a categorical self that opposes the public self.
• B)the identity diffusion status.
• C)attribution retraining.
• D)mutual role-taking.

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Definitions:

Albert Bandura

A psychologist known for his social learning theory and the concept of self-efficacy.

Cognitive Explanation

An understanding or interpretation focusing on mental processes such as perception, memory, and reasoning.

UCS

An abbreviation for Unconditioned Stimulus, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without prior conditioning.

Instinctive Behaviour

Inborn, automatic responses to specific stimuli that are not learned but rather naturally occur in all members of a species.