72. Aaron, a pre-med student, received a C on his biochemistry exam. He told his

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72. Aaron, a pre-med student, received a C on his biochemistry exam. He told his roommate that he had studied for the exam, and that it was just bad luck that the professor had asked so many questions that he did not understand. Aaron appears to have a. an external locus of control b. reciprocal determinism c. self-efficacy d. an internal locus of control 73. Of the following, who most reflects self-efficacy? a. Maria, who tries to redirect her aggressive urges into more prosocial channels b. Todd, who believes that he can handle challenging situations and obtain future rewards c. Beth, who tends to attribute her own problems and anxieties to others d. Marcus, who believes that most of the things that happen to him are due to luck or factors beyond his control 74. What are the two basic requirements of a good test? a. specificity and sensitivity b. specificity and generalizability c. validity and reliability d. reliability and sensitivity 75. The cognitive organization that helps us think about the self and process self- relevant information is a. a self-schema b. a self-concept c. self-awareness d. self-esteem 76. Larry has put off studying for his Medieval Literature class all semester and worries that he will not do well on the final exam. He starts to drink beers and watch sports on TV each night with his roommates. This is an example of a. the BIRG approach b. self-handicapping c. sandbagging d. self-consciousness 77. The processing of the self in the brain takes place primarily in a. the frontal areas of the brain b. a widely distributed network of brain structures c. the left hemisphere d. the right hemisphere 78. Which qualities best describe collectivism? a. interdependence, cooperation, and lack of conflict b. independence and self-reliance c. personal achievement

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72. A) an external locus of control

This is a form of behavior in which a person beleieves that their behaviour would be guided by external factors such as fate, luck or even different people, everyone or everything except them. This is a part of personality psychology in which there is an explanation of the degree to which people would be believing about the control over events in their life. People having strong internal locus control, believe that the events that have occurred in their life are by themselves,

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