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What is the channeling hypothesis and how does it link to psychological needs with personality traits to explain motivation?

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Individuals with high trait self-control have an advantage for achieving their goals. What is this advantage?

A) They are not sidetracked by temptations that interfere with progress toward their goals.
B) They incur more opportunity costs.
C) They easily abandon their original goals for alternative goals.
D) They choose easy goals that are easy to achieve

E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

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What personality trait would correlate with being motivated to view paintings in an art museum?

The big five personality traits are openness-to-experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Select two traits and describe how differences within those two traits are associated with differences in what motivates people. That is, how would individuals with a high amount of a trait differ from individuals with a low amount of that trait in what motivates them?

Some individuals prefer and choose small immediate rewards rather than large (more important) delayed rewards. What characterizes these individuals, who choose small immediate rewards?

How do personality traits influence behavior according to cybernetic big five theory? Traits determine

Consider the following sequence: First, individuals participate in either an easy task or a very difficult task, such as solving 10 easy anagrams or 10 very difficult anagrams. Next, all of the individuals attempt to solve a very difficult Sudoku puzzle. a. Based on the concept of self-control, who will persist longer at the Sudoku puzzle? b. Apply the three views of self-control to explain the results.