CH. 11

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Which of the following motivational strivings characterize the "self-as-agent"?

Develop personal potential

________ is whether one's place or role in society "feels right" and connects well with one's self-conception or "feels wrong" in terms of a miss-match with one's self-conception.

Identity

As people pursue intrinsic goals, they typically experience a steady stream of:

Psychological need satisfaction

According to the limited strength model of self-control, which event best explains why people experience self-regulation failure?

Resisting a temptation

_____ are cognitive generalizations about the self that are domain specific and learned from past experience.

Self-schemas

Analyses of the relation between goals that people strive for and subjective well-being is:

Well-being is what one is striving for rather than what one actually attains.

The self-concept is:

a collection of domain-specific self-schemas.

The limited strength model of self-control suggests that the amount or strength of willpower is crucial to successful self-control. What resource depletes when one exerts control? That is, what is depleted during self-control attempts?

glucose

Having the benefit of a tutor or coach who models how to do things such as setting goals, developing strategies, formulating implementation intention, monitoring performance, and evaluating how well one is doing is a description of:

self-regulation.

The problem with placing too much emphasis on self-esteem in a motivational analysis of behavior is that:

there are almost no findings that self-esteem causes anything at all.


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