According to the social learning perspective, how can the government increase the self-efficacy of children from a wide variety of backgrounds to aspire to professional careers?

A) create ad campaigns showing juveniles in detention for breaking laws
B) place adults from a wide variety of backgrounds in high-visibility positions of leadership, so that they can serve as role models
C) create an educational campaign that explains to kids the benefits of staying in school and working hard
D) distribute copies of employment statistics that include projections for job growth for the next 20 years

Mr.Kim's experience of chronic back pain is influenced by his cultural background,his attentional processes,and nerve damage caused by an automobile accident.An integrated understanding of Mr.Kim's suffering is most clearly provided by

A) the McGurk effect.
B) the volley principle.
C) gate-control theory.
D) a biopsychosocial approach.

Which trait on the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 is associated with extreme openness to experience?

A) detachment
B) disinhibition
C) negative affectivity
D) psychoticism

This theory suggests that different patterns of arousal in the autonomic nervous system produce the different emotions people feel, and that the arousal appears before the emotion is perceived.

A) Cannon-Bard theory
B) Schachter-Singer theory
C) James-Lange theory of emotion
D) Lazarus theory

Self-efficacy refers to

A) the belief that one has the competence to accomplish a given goal or task.
B) the sense that one can gain skills and overcome obstacles.
C) the need to engage in warm relations with other people.
D) the sense that one is in control of one's own life.

In an experiment, a researcher manipulates one variable to see how it affects a second variable. The second variable, which is observed for any possible effects, is called the __________.

A) dependent variable
B) control variable
C) independent variable
D) hypothetical variable