The Process We Use to Evaluate Our Abilities, Behaviors, Personality

question 47

True/False

The process we use to evaluate our abilities, behaviors, personality characteristics, appearance, reactions, and general sense of self in comparison to those of others is called self-efficacy.

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Definitions:

Attitudes

Mental and emotional entities that inherit positive or negative evaluations of objects, people, or events, influencing an individual's behavior.

Actions

The things that an individual does, often in response to external stimuli or internal decisions.

Cognitive Dissonance

The psychological discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, values, or ideas simultaneously.

Zimbardo's Simulated Prison

An experiment conducted by psychologist Philip Zimbardo in 1971 to investigate the psychological effects of perceived power, focusing on the struggle between prisoners and prison officers.