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Expectancy-Reinforcement (Rotter) Ryckman 10e

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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.  
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Expectancy   A cognition or belief-held with a higher or lower degree of certainty-about the property of some object or event.  
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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  
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Psychological Situation   The meaning of the situation as it is defined by the person  
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Maladjusted Behaviors   Habitual pattern of behaviors which are detriment to the individual  
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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  
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Lack of Competency   Not having enough situations to learn competency to succeed  
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Minimal Goal   The dividing point between those outcomes that produce feelings of satisfaction and those that produce dissatisfaction.  
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Failure to Discriminate   Having a heightened value expressed in inappropriate situations  
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Locus of Control   Term that refers to peoples beliefs about the location (internal/external) of controlling forces in their lives.  
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Interpersonal Trust   The confidence a person or group has in relying on another person or group.  
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Emetophobics   Intensely anxious individuals with very strong internal control orientations who fear vomiting because they would lose control  
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Field Theory   The idea that behavior is determined by a complex interplay between cognitive and environmental variables.  
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God-mediated Control   An indirect form of internal control in which individuals work collaboratively with God to achieve their personal goals  
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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.  
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Internal/External Control of reinforcement   The individual's belief that his or her behavior is self-determined or determined by outside factors  
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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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