Chapter 11

consistency is indentified by a trained analyst

consistency comes from genetics

consistency results from the enviornment

consistent

Persistent belief human behavior is more consistent than is indicated by experimental evidence

• An interactionist approach
• social origins of human thought and actions

contribution of thought processes to human motivation affect and action

person, environment, and behavior variables that continuously interact with one another

how we see/ interpret things

what we think will happen

if i do this, this will result

when event A occurs event B will follow

what a person is capable of doing

what a person believes that they are capable of doing

what is worth having or doing?

how do we attain our goals?

• what are we capable of doing
• the subskills individuals have that allow them to achieve their goals

• we learn what we observe
• requires no reinforcement

• influenced by different enviornmental characteristics
• characteristics observed by watching models
• characteristics of the perciever

transfer info from short term to long term memory

what is or is not worth doing

self- regulated

you decided how you will complete a task

• moral justification
• Euphemistic labeling
• Advantageous Comparison
• Displacement of Responsibility
• Diffusion of repsonsibility
• disregard or diffusion of consequences
• dehumanization
• attribution of blame

• necessary for civilization
• self control
• research performed with 4 and 5 year olds asking them if they would like their cookie now or if they waited they woudl recieve 2 cookies.
• can learn how to delay gratification through modeling

• psychological problems result from psychological expectancies
• ~~inconsistencies between self-efficacy and percieved self-efficacy