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Personality Ch. 16
Expectancy-Reinforcement (Rotter) Ryckman 10e
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Behavior Potential | The probability that a particular behavior will occur, as a function of the person's unique expediencies and the perceived value of the reinfocer secured by the behavior in a given situation. |
| Expectancy | A cognition or belief-held with a higher or lower degree of certainty-about the property of some object or event. |
| Reinforcement Value | The importance of a given reinforcer to an individual in relation to other reinforcers if the probabilities of attaining all of them are equal. The importance we attach to different activities |
| Psychological Situation | The meaning of the situation as it is defined by the person |
| Maladjusted Behaviors | Habitual pattern of behaviors which are detriment to the individual |
| Freedom of Movement | The individual's expectancy that his or her behaviors will generally lead to success (high freedom of movement) or failure (low freedom of movement) in a given life area |
| Lack of Competency | Not having enough situations to learn competency to succeed |
| Minimal Goal | The dividing point between those outcomes that produce feelings of satisfaction and those that produce dissatisfaction. |
| Failure to Discriminate | Having a heightened value expressed in inappropriate situations |
| Locus of Control | Term that refers to peoples beliefs about the location (internal/external) of controlling forces in their lives. |
| Interpersonal Trust | The confidence a person or group has in relying on another person or group. |
| Emetophobics | Intensely anxious individuals with very strong internal control orientations who fear vomiting because they would lose control |
| Field Theory | The idea that behavior is determined by a complex interplay between cognitive and environmental variables. |
| God-mediated Control | An indirect form of internal control in which individuals work collaboratively with God to achieve their personal goals |
| I-E Scale | Test designed by Rotter to measure the individual's belief that forces are or are not bond his or her control. Internals believe events are under their control; externals believe that outcomes are controlled by outside forces such as luck. |
| Internal/External Control of reinforcement | The individual's belief that his or her behavior is self-determined or determined by outside factors |
| Stimulus Generalization | The process in which responses made in the presence of an original stimulus com to be made in the presence of other, similar stimuli. |
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