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Q: Thought patterns involve ______. a. our beliefs and our imagined experiences but not self-talk b. self-talk, beliefs, and behaviors c. self-talk, imagined experiences, and actual experiences d. self-talk, beliefs, and imagined experiences

Q: A pattern of thoughts that focuses on the possibilities of a situation is ______ thinking. a. opportunity b. obstacle c. habitual d. planned

Q: The use of mental practice can be for individuals in ______. a. sports but not school b. school but not the workforce c. the workforce and sports d. school, the workforce and sports

Q: Which of the following is not a step in the process of successful mental practice? a. closing your eyes b. physical practicing c. mentally rehearsing d. staying concentrated, relaxed and focused

Q: The final step for practicing successful mental practice is ______. a. mentally rehearsing b. open your eyes and praising yourself c. focusing on a challenge d. talking positively to yourself

Q: The first step for practicing successful mental practice is _____. a. focusing on the challenging situation b. relaxing, concentrating, and focusing c. mentally rehearsing d. closing your eyes

Q: A salesperson who pictures himself not presenting very well in front of a client may experience ______. a. lack of confidence b. a block to effective performance c. emotional reasoning d. all of these

Q: The successful completion of an event being imagined before even competing in an event is ______. a. rehearsal b. mental practice c. self-talk d. constructive thoughts

Q: If individuals use more positive and rational thoughts, what type of beliefs can they challenge? a. mental filters b. emotional reasoning c. should statements d. all of these

Q: If an individual only thinks in black and white (either total perfection or total failure), they are engaging in ______. a. overgeneralization b. mental filter c. extreme thinking d. emotional reasoning

Q: Mental distortions can lead to ______. a. personal effectiveness and potential depression b. ineffective thinking and potential depression c. ineffective thinking and personal effectiveness d. effective thinking and personal effectiveness

Q: To alter destructive beliefs, an aspiring entrepreneur should ______. a. identify the dysfunction and change thoughts to be more irrational b. change thoughts but not identify dysfunction c. identify the dysfunction and change thoughts to be more rational d. do nothing at all

Q: If individuals are drawing negative conclusions regarding situations despite a lack of concrete evidence to support the conclusions, they are ______. a. fortune telling b. labeling and mislabeling c. mind reading d. disqualifying the positive

Q: Which of the following are categories of dysfunctional thinking? a. extreme thinking and lack of generalization b. positive thinking, emotional reasoning, and would statements c. mental filters and should statements d. labeling and moderate thinking

Q: Self-talk to help individuals to be more effective in their life should be ______. a. motivating, supporting, and negative b. demotivating and negative c. motivating, positive, and unsupporting d. motivating, positive, and supporting

Q: If you employ sappers in your self-talk, you are saying that you cause ______. a. positive events b. negative events c. positive events and positive emotions d. negative events and negative emotions

Q: As Serena Williams sings a song in her head to help her stay focused during matches, she is engaging in ______. a. positive self-talk b. distractions c. negative self-talk d. imagined experiences

Q: What is negative self-talk that prevents you from achieving your goals and feeling good about yourself? a. negative imagination b. sappers c. bad thoughts d. internal critic

Q: The Little Blue Engine chugging and going I think I can, I think I can is an example of ______. a. imagined experiences b. positive self-talk c. behaviors d. thought patterns

Q: Elements that are likely to explain how our thinking impacts our behavior include ______. a. beliefs, behaviors, and self-talk b. beliefs, imagined experiences, self-talk, and thought patterns c. beliefs, imagined experiences, and behaviors d. thought patterns, behaviors, and self-talk

Q: If we are invited to a party and focus on the negative aspects of the positive situation, what is being impacted? a. physical world b. psychological world c. behaviors d. all of these

Q: What do we change by understanding our psychological worlds? a. our psychological world and our experiences but not our behaviors b. our psychological world and our behaviors but not our experiences c. our psychological world, our behaviors, and our experiences d. our behaviors and experiences but not our psychological world

Q: If we wish to achieve effective self-leadership, we must ______. a. take responsibility for what others do b. take responsibility for what we think c. place the responsibility of our actions on authority figures d. take responsibility for what others think

Q: Which of the following can self-leadership do? a. increase understanding of our psychological world but not how we deal with it b. not impact our psychological world c. decrease understanding of psychological world and how we deal with it d. determine what we choose to think about and how we choose to think about it

Q: The content from our psychological worlds ______. a. determines how we behave but not the nature of the physical world b. determines how we behave, which, in turn, determines the nature of the physical world c. determines the nature of the physical world but not how we behave d. doesnt determine the nature of how we behave or the nature of the physical world

Q: We create our own psychological worlds by ______. a. selecting what enters our mind and what shape it takes after it does b. not selecting what enters our mind, but what shape the items take c. not selecting what enters our mind or what shape the items take d. selecting what enters our mind, but not what shape it takes

Q: How can focusing on natural rewards benefit individuals who are working in naturally unmotivating sections of work? How can individuals focus on what they do like about their work as opposed to what they do not like about the work? Are there differences between the type of pleasant feature that is focused on and if so why?

Q: How can individuals build more natural rewards into lifes activities? What does that individual gain by employing this particular natural reward strategy? What are some strategies for implementing these rewards?

Q: While much focus has been paid to feelings of competence and self-control, the other area of naturally rewarding activities involves feelings of purpose. Why do feelings of purpose matter so much in the natural rewards dimension of self-leadership? What are the benefits that arise when work has a purpose?

Q: Explain the two main areas of naturally rewarding activities in which these activities make individuals feel more competent and feel self-controlling. What does each of these aspects add to the discussion on naturally rewarding activities that the other does not provide? Are there any underlying foundations that are counter to each other?

Q: Compare and contrast the externally administered and natural (intrinsic) rewards. Which of these forms of rewards has received more attention? Can these rewards be used simultaneously?

Q: Having a sense of purpose is as important as feeling competent and having self-control.

Q: The two primary natural reward approaches are building natural rewards into our lifes activities and focusing on the natural rewards in our activities.

Q: It does not make any difference what pleasant features of our activities that we focus on.

Q: The two primary features of naturally rewarding activities that have been studied create feelings of competence and feelings of purpose.

Q: The idea that even if a task makes us feel more competent and more self-controlling, we may still have a difficult naturally enjoying it if we dont see its worthiness is related to feelings of purpose.

Q: Examples of externally administered rewards include praise, pay raises, time off, promotions, awards, bonuses, and more.

Q: The type of reward that has received more attention in literature and the workplace are natural rewards.

Q: With what steps can discovering naturally rewarding work be done? a. Get a new job with better benefits. b. Identify new activities at work that reward you and build them into your work. c. Ask for a new office to get a new outlook. d. Complain to your boss until things change.

Q: The choice to focus on the pleasant aspects of our work, rather than the unpleasant depends on freedom to choose ______. a. choose work b. choose thoughts c. work and thoughts d. the boss

Q: If you are not able to identify naturally rewarding activities in your job, you are probably in the ______. a. wrong job but tried to identify them b. right job but didnt try to identify them c. right job and tried to identify them d. wrong job and didnt try to identify them

Q: With what type of natural reward strategy can we focus on the rewards we will receive and thus the image of our future? a. competence strategy b. purpose strategy c. intentionally focusing our thoughts towards naturally rewarding aspects d. building more naturally enjoyable features into our lifes activities

Q: What type of natural rewards has Amazon not focused on while creating their work environment that holds unreasonably high standards for employees? a. building more naturally enjoyable features into our lifes activities b. intentionally focusing our thoughts towards naturally rewarding aspects c. constructive thought patterns d. behavior strategies focused on our world

Q: By holding a business meeting in a restaurant as opposed to a formal conference room, what approach to using natural rewards is present? a. building more naturally enjoyable features into our lifes activities b. self-talk c. intentionally focusing on our thoughts towards naturally rewarding aspects d. goal-setting

Q: The types of thoughts that a runner has that involve focusing on naturally rewarding aspects of the activity are ______. a. praise from others on physical condition and exhaustion b. potentially longer life due to improved health and blisters c. potentially longer life and setting a positive example d. heat, sweat, and sore muscles

Q: If we focus on, talk about, and think about the parts of our job that we dont like, we are not ______. a. intentionally focusing our thoughts on the naturally unrewarding aspects of activities b. intentionally focusing our thoughts on the naturally rewarding aspects of activities c. building more naturally enjoyable features into our lifes activities d. avoiding negative self-talk

Q: Google has many different aspects in their work environment such as free breakfast, Lego play stations, and desks designed by TinkerToy materials, which represents ______. a. building more naturally enjoyable features into our lifes activities b. intentionally focusing our thoughts on the naturally rewarding aspects of activities and self-goal setting c. intentionally focusing our thoughts on the naturally rewarding aspects of our activities d. intentionally focusing our thoughts on the naturally rewarding aspects of our activities and building more naturally enjoyable features into our lifes activities

Q: By identifying aspects of our endeavors that we naturally enjoy and trying to increase these as much as reasonably possible is ______. a. building more naturally enjoyable features into our lifes activities b. intentionally focusing our thoughts on the naturally rewarding aspects of activities and self-goal setting c. intentionally focusing our thoughts on the naturally rewarding aspects of our activities d. intentionally focusing our thoughts on the naturally rewarding aspects of our activities and building more naturally enjoyable features into our lifes activities

Q: The primary approach(es) to using natural rewards to enhance our self-leadership is(are) ______. a. building more naturally enjoyable features into our lifes activities b. intentionally focusing our thoughts on the naturally rewarding aspects of activities and self-goal setting c. intentionally focusing our thoughts on the naturally rewarding aspects of our activities d. intentionally focusing our thoughts on the naturally rewarding aspects of our activities and building more naturally enjoyable features into our lifes activities

Q: As employees fill their basic needs for competence and self-control, it can lead to increased ______. a. task performance b. extra-role behaviors c. task performance and extra role behaviors d. stress

Q: The natural biological nature of humankind towards self-preservation is ______. a. altruism b. selfishness c. self-awareness d. survival

Q: One aspect of naturally rewarding activities that provides a sense of purpose involves helping others or expressing goodwill toward otherswhat is this called? a. altruism b. sportsmanship c. purpose d. citizenship

Q: If an individual does not feel that an activity is worthy, it may impact feelings of ______. a. competence and self-control b. purpose and self-control c. purpose d. competence

Q: What combination often results in a pattern of our behavior? a. feelings of competence and feelings of purpose b. feelings of competence and feelings of self-control c. feelings of self-control and purpose d. feelings of self-control, purpose, and competence

Q: Which of the following are ways in which individuals want to have feelings of self-control in their own life? a. where they will live b. where they will work c. whom they will marry d. all of these

Q: An adult who dreams of being their own boss and independently wealthy is driven by feelings of ______. a. self-control b. competence c. purpose d. stress

Q: Activities that make us feel more competent are often tied to ______ type of rewards. a. intrinsic b. external c. intrinsic and external d. neither intrinsic nor external

Q: If we enjoy tasks that we perform well, we are experience feelings of ______. a. self-control b. competence c. purpose d. stress

Q: The two primary features that can be identified as being descriptive of naturally rewarding activities are feelings of ______. a. competence and feelings of self-control b. competence and feelings of purpose c. self-control and feelings of purpose d. purpose and feelings of exhaustion

Q: Which of the following does not use natural rewards in exercising self-leadership? a. running in another location b. having a meeting in a more casual environment c. having strict rules about laughing at work d. having a great vacation

Q: One benefit of developing feelings of self-control is ______. a. not having to practice as much b. decreasing our number of hobbies c. feeling more in control of our world d. receiving external rewards

Q: An example of feelings of competence as part of natural rewards would be ______. a. discussing your skill or hobby with another person b. bringing in an expert to solve a problem c. finishing last in an art show d. finishing in the middle of a group of runners

Q: When incentives are built into the task itself, what types of rewards are at play for motivating an individual? a. natural b. external c. physical d. monetary

Q: Naturally rewarding activities include feelings of ______. a. self-reward and self-punishment b. appreciation for nature c. being intelligent d. competence, self-controlling, and purpose

Q: Which of the following is the best way to achieve more effective self-leadership? a. focusing on natural rewards b. using self-applied rewards that are separable from the task c. focusing on natural rewards and using self-applied rewards that are separable from the task d. neither focuses on natural rewards or on self-applied rewards

Q: A type of reward that is often less recognized than other types of rewards is ______. a. praise b. external c. natural d. promotions

Q: If an Olympic skier enjoys the speed and motion of alpine skiing, what type of reward may training hold? a. external b. time off c. intrinsic d. bonuses

Q: If Anna has done a good job and her supervisor praises the work that she had done, Anna has received what type of reward? a. intrinsic b. external c. intrinsic and external d. self-reward

Q: Which of the following are examples of externally administered rewards? a. promotion, bonus, and reading newspaper b. award, time off, and fishing c. praise, pay raise, and time off d. self-talk

Q: Both removing negative cues and increasing positive cues make changes to the environment to enable an individual to more effectively accomplish a task.

Q: Which of the fundamental questions establish your purpose? a. Where do I want to work and how much money can I make? b. What am I good at so I can plan my career? c. Who am I, what am I meant to do, and what do I want to do with my life? d. What cause needs me?

Q: Individuals who are truly happy and peaking in their lives are those who are ______. a. performing a job they dont like b. performing a job and accomplishing goals that reflect the purpose in their lives c. accomplishing goals, but not in a job they are happy in d. performing a job they like, but not accomplishing goals that reflect the purpose in their lives

Q: Purpose establishes ______. a. our ultimate long-term goal b. short-term goals c. unclear goals d. nothing relating to goals

Q: By searching and finding your purpose, you will be able ______. a. to better organize your life and experience pinnacle of happiness b. experience pinnacle of happiness and pinnacle of productivity c. experience pinnacle of productivity d. to better organize your life, experience pinnacle of happiness, and experience pinnacle of productivity

Q: Which of the following can be described as understanding the ultimate long-term goal, therefore guiding every decision? a. meaning for existence b. meaning for work c. short-term goals d. meaning for relationship

Q: In which of the following self-leadership strategies does purpose have a critical role? a. self-goal-setting and constructive thoughts b. natural rewards, self-goal-setting, and constructive thoughts c. constructive thoughts and natural rewards d. self-goal-setting and natural rewards

Q: Purpose is a key aspect of the self-goal-setting process, especially self-setting ______ goals. a. short-term b. nonfuzzy c. long-term d. nonfuzzy and short-term

Q: If individuals are trying to determine their purpose, which of the following fundamental questions does it involve asking? a. Who am I? b. What am I meant to do here? c. What am I trying to do with my life? d. all of these

Q: Purpose-related self-leadership is important to ______. a. effective self-leadership b. people around effective self-leaders c. people who contented with life d. all of these

Q: If an individual has purpose, it includes ______. a. the quality we choose to shape our lives around and being a source of energy b. being a source of energy and source of direction c. being a source of direction d. the reason we choose to shape our lives, the source of our energy, and providing a source of direction