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1. According to the social-cognitive approach to personality, people who have attained self-efficacy are most likely to ___________.
a. Have an external locus of control
b. manifest the self-serving bias
c. manifest neuroticism
d. have an internal locus of control
2. The trait approach to personality assumes that people ____________.
a. react in different ways in different situations
b. are motivated by unconscious instincts
c. have stable, long-lasting patterns of behavior
d. are products of their environment
3.. When under stress, Will, who is a very impatient person, tends to complain about how other people are too impatient and rush through their work. This is an example of ________
a. Displacement
b. Repression
c. Projection
d. Denial
4. Alex has tons of work to do, but he decides to go play basketball and have fun with his friends instead. According to Freud, Alex's __________ is governing his choice
a. Reality principle
b. Superego
c. Ego
d. ID
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