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| the average relationship between self-report personality measures and behavior, estimated by Mischel at r=0.30 |
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| the mismatch between intuition, which says that people are consistent, and research findings, which say they are not |
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| cognitive person variables |
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| cognitive factors within a person, less global than traits, which influence how an individual adapts to the environment |
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| trait terms that people use to describe them-selves and other people |
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| person variables concerned with how a person construes reality |
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| a typical example of an object or type of person; a "fuzzy concept" typical of the cateories people use in perceiving others |
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| person variables concerned with what a person is able to do |
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| subjective beliefs about what will happen in a particular situation (including behavior outcomes, stimulus outcomes, and self-efficacies) |
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| behavior-outcome expectancy |
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| expectancy about what will happen if a person behaves in a particular way |
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| stimulus-outcome expectancies |
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| expectancies about how events will develop in the world, i.e., what events will follow other environmental stimuli |
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| self-efficacy expectancies (or self-efficacy) |
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| subjective beliefs about what a person will be able to do |
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| subjective stimulus value |
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| how much an outcome is valued by an individual |
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| self-regulatory systems and plans |
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| ways that a person works on complicated behavior (e.g., by setting goals and by self-criticism) |
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| the ability to give up immediate gratifications for larger, more distant rewards |
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| the interacting mutual influences of the person, the environment, and the behavior |
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| personal constructs that people use to describe themselves; cognitive structures and subfunctions for perceiving, evaluating, and regulating behavior (not a psychic agent that controls action) |
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| the belief about what desirable or undesirable things will occur if a behavior is successfully performed |
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| noticing the model's behavior (a prerequisite for learning by modeling) |
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| remembering what a model has done |
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| motor reproduction process |
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| being able to do what one has seen a model do |
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| deciding whether it is worthwhile to behave as a model has behaved |
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| learning by observing others; also called vicarious learning |
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| learning by observing others, without being directly rewarded oneself |
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| the sense that a group can do what is to be done |
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| failure to regulate one's behavior to live up to high moral standards |
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