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| Cognitive Social-Learning Theory |
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| Explains personality in terms of social learning, acquired cognitive factors, and the person-situation interaction. |
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| The process in which we imitate the behavior of others. |
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| The abilities and talents that dictate what we can do. |
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| How we process information. |
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| Our beliefs about what causes us to fail or succeed, and what success and failure means. |
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| our ability to set goals, plan for the future, delay gratification, and monitor our progress. |
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| A persons perceived control over his or her own behavior. |
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| Internal Locus of Control |
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| Belief that a person controls his or her own destiny. |
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| External Locus of Control |
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| Belief that a person outcomes are controlled by other forces, such as fate, chance, or powerful others. |
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| A person's belief that he or she is capable of achieving a desired outcome. |
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| The idea that one's personality results from the mutual interaction of individuals, their actions, and their enviroments. |
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| An approach that focuses on subjective experience, the self, and capacity of fulfillment. |
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| Unconditional-Positive Regard |
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| Unqualified love and acceptance. |
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| Conditional Positive Regard |
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| Love and acceptance is contingent on behavior. |
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| Specific beliefs about themselves that guide their interpretation of information about themselves. |
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| A persons positive or negative evaluations of him- or herself. |
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| Negative emotional consequences result when there is a discrepancy between our self-concept and our ideal or what we think we ought to be. |
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| Achieving our full, unique potential. |
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| A fleeting moment of self-actualization in which you are extremely capable, happy, and absorbed. |
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