The Belief in One's Ability to Be Successful in the Performance

question 28

Multiple Choice

The belief in one's ability to be successful in the performance of a given task is termed

• A)self-esteem.
• B)self-concept.
• C)self-efficacy.
• D)self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Definitions:

Intellectual Ability

The capacity to engage in higher-order thinking, analysis, and reasoning.

Birth

The act or process of being born, marking the beginning of life outside the mother's womb.

Functionalism

A school of psychology emphasizing questions such as why the mind or a particular cognitive process works the way(s) it does.

Structuralism

One of the earliest schools of cognitive psychology. It focused on the search for the simplest possible mental elements and the laws governing the ways they could be combined.