Exam 14: The Behavioral Social Learning Approach: Relevant Research

Dogs exposed to aversive stimuli from which they could not escape were found to

Describe the circumstances under which people are more likely to imitate aggressive acts. Can it be said with some certainty that viewing aggression increases the likelihood of acting aggressively? For each research finding in support of this assertion state one alternative explanation for the evidence.

Researchers looking at the relation between locus of control and health sometimes fail to find the predicted results. Subsequent research determined that this may be because the researchers failed to consider the participants'

The concept of learned helplessness is based on which behaviorist notion?

Male and female participants in one study were left alone to engage in a short conversation.The researchers found the least active and least enjoyable conversations took place when the couple consisted of

Which experimental finding does Bandura's social learning model have a difficult time explaining?

According to the learned helplessness model,one way to treat depression is to

According to Rotter's original model,individual differences in locus of control are most likely to affect behavior when

Jeff enjoys playing video games on a regular basis,and the more realistic the violence in the combat video games he plays,the more he enjoys it. Because the games in which he is actively engaged are so realistic,you predict

Research finds that happiness with one's relationship is related to having a partner who is

According to studies of achievement and locus of control,someone who is an external in college is likely to have

The traditional masculinity-femininity model for describing individual differences in gender-role behavior was based on the assumption that

Which of the following is a similarity between animals exposed to inescapable shock and depressed humans?

Controlled laboratory research on observational learning of aggression requires participants to __________ and then receive the opportunity to act aggressively.

Which model for the relationship between gender-type and psychological adjustment has received the least support from research?

The androgyny model of gender-type divides people into how many different groups?

Imagine you present a gender-role inventory to a group of freshmen and discover that one participant scored low on both the masculine and feminine scales. Under which category does this participant belong?

Your friend's grandmother is very sweet and energetic for her age at 72 years old. But your friend says her grandmother never takes care of herself: she is always driving other seniors to their doctor's appointments or visiting sick friends. Your friend is becoming worried because her grandmother's arthritis is getting worse and she is becoming depressed. The grandmother appears to be

Although there are exceptions,researchers looking at locus of control and depression typically find

When suicidal patients were asked to relive the events that took place before an attempted suicide,they