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  2. Locus of control - Wikipedia

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    Locus of control as a theoretical construct derives from Julian B. Rotter's (1954) social learning theory of personality. It is an example of a problem-solving generalized expectancy, a broad strategy for addressing a wide range of situations.

  3. Root locus analysis - Wikipedia

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    Spirule. In control theory and stability theory, root locus analysis is a graphical method for examining how the roots of a system change with variation of a certain system parameter, commonly a gain within a feedback system.

  4. Goal setting - Wikipedia

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    While the literature on self-regulated learning covers a broad variety of theoretical perspectives and concepts such as control theory, self-efficacy, action regulation, and resource allocation, goal-setting is a crucial component of virtually all of these approaches as the initiator of self-regulation mechanisms such as planning, monitoring ...

  5. Locus (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Each curve in this example is a locus defined as the conchoid of the point P and the line l.In this example, P is 8 cm from l. In geometry, a locus (plural: loci) (Latin word for "place", "location") is a set of all points (commonly, a line, a line segment, a curve or a surface), whose location satisfies or is determined by one or more specified conditions.

  6. Motivation in second-language learning - Wikipedia

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    locus of causality; locus of control RE process and outcomes; ability to set appropriate goals; The learning environment: comfort; resources; time of day, week, year; size of class and school; class and school ethos; Mastery feelings of competence; awareness of developing skills and mastery in a chosen area; self-efficacy; The broader context ...

  7. Explanatory style - Wikipedia

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    Whereas locus of control cuts across both positive and negative outcomes, authors in the attributional style field have distinguished between a Pessimistic Explanatory Style, in which failures are attributed to internal, stable, and global factors and successes to external, unstable, and specific causes, and an Optimistic Explanatory Style, in ...

  8. Social Interaction Anxiety Scale - Wikipedia

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    In addition, there are moderate to high correlations between the SIAS and other scales testing fear, depression, and locus of control, which are all related to social anxiety. [1] In addition, the SIAS responds to change and improvement in symptoms due to treatment. [1] [2]

  9. Defence mechanism - Wikipedia

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    In the first definitive book on defence mechanisms, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), [7] Anna Freud enumerated the ten defence mechanisms that appear in the works of her father, Sigmund Freud: repression, regression, reaction formation, isolation, undoing, projection, introjection, turning against one's own person, reversal into the opposite, and sublimation or displacement.