According to ____ theory, when it comes to dating and mating members of the opposite sex, men will take advantage of every opportunity to pass along their genes.
a. error management
b. self-determination
c. reactance
d. risk aversion
Answer: A
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Social Psychology Chapter 4
- Do people usually think in optimistic or overly ambitious ways when they are setting goals and/or striving to achieve goals?
- Research indicates that when people are setting goals, they tend to think in a(n) ____ way, and when they are pursuing or striving for goals, they to think in a(n) ____ way.
- When people are setting goals, the core question is, ____. When people are pursuing goals, the core question is, ____.
- Research on positive illusions and goal-setting indicates that ____.
- When people are asked to list their current goals and personal projects, the average list contains ____.
- Personal projects, or personal strivings, are also known as ____.
- Suppose that an annoying co-worker is always making passes at you and trying to ask you out on dates. Research on the panic button effect suggests that you would be less troubled by this person if ____.
- Suppose that Peter hates his job as a medical assistant. Research on the panic button effect would suggest that Peter would hate his job less if ____.
- The so-called panic button effect refers to the tendency for people ____.
- Research indicates that people who believe that they are acting autonomously, based on intrinsic motivations, are ____ compared people who believe that their behavior is guided by external forces and extrinsic motivations.
- According to self-determination theory, people who act based on _____ are more free than others.
- The idea that at least some of our activities must be motivated by their inner drives and choices, rather than by external factors, reflects ____.
- Self-determination theory states that people have an innate need ____.
- Research findings suggesting that people become less prosocial when induced to reject their belief in free will most likely indicate that ____.
- Which of the following statements about free will is BEST supported by your text?
- When human animals rely on meaning to make their choices, they are able to look at meaning ____.
- Among humans, greater freedom is associated with ____.
- When experimental manipulations have induced people to reject their free will, they tend to ____.
- According to the text, do most psychologists today believe that people have free will?
- Maureen thinks that her abilities are fluid and capable of changing and developing over time. She decides to try to learn to garden. Her first year of planting is a complete failure--nearly every plant dies. She only harvests a few tomatoes. Given what you know about Maureen, what can you predict about her interest in gardening?
- Failure will most likely produce learned helplessness for ____.
- The experience of learned helplessness is ____.
- ___ occurs when people think they will fail so they quit trying to succeed.
- Jonah is in his psychology class and has just gotten his third exam score back. It's an "F" again! He hasn't passed one single exam this semester. He decides to quit studying for that class at all since it hasn't seemed to help much. Jonah is exhibiting ____.
- One advantage of being an incremental theorist rather than an entity theorist is that ____.