Mischel and Shoda's Cognitive-Affective Personality System Predicts That a Person's

question 13

Multiple Choice

Mischel and Shoda's cognitive-affective personality system predicts that a person's behavior will

• A)stay stable from one situation to another.
• B)change from one situation to another,but in a meaningful manner.
• C)change from one situation to another,depending solely on differences in the situation.
• D)change as personal dispositions change.

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Definitions:

Biases

Systematic patterns of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment, whereby inferences about other people and situations may be drawn in an illogical fashion.

Logical Errors

Faulty reasoning patterns or mistaken beliefs that often result from cognitive biases or limitations.

Conclusions

Statements or judgments that are arrived at by reasoning from evidence or facts.

Experiment

A research method involving the manipulation of one or more independent variables to determine their effect on a dependent variable, within a controlled environment.