Mulitiple choice quiz

Take the quiz to test your understanding of the key concepts covered in the chapter. Try testing yourself before you read the chapter to see where your strengths and weaknesses are, then test yourself again once you’ve read the chapter to see how well you’ve understood.

1. To possess _________ is to be self-regulatory and self-directing.

  1. agency
  2. self-efficacy
  3. efficacy
  4. empowerment

Answer:

a. agency

2. According to ______________, any event, anything that occurs, can be explained in terms of conditions or events that preceded the observed event.

  1. operationism
  2. associationism
  3. determinism
  4. objectivism

Answer:

c. determinism

3. According to the doctrine of _____________, an event is completely explainable in terms of antecedent                 events.

  1. objectivism
  2. rationalism
  3. empiricism
  4. determinism

Answer:

d. determinism

4. According to people who espouse __________, regardless of what one does, events will unfold as they were meant to unfold, to happen as they were meant to happen; one cannot change what will be.

  1. fatalism
  2. indeterminism
  3. inevitability theory
  4. necessitarianiam

Answer:

a. fatalism

5. The position known as _____ contends that free will and determinism are not mutually exclusive and that both can be considered true.

  1. compatibilism
  2. concurrence theory
  3. concordance theory
  4. reciprocity

Answer:

a. compatibilism