Jedediah's friends have asked him to accompany them on a trip overseas. Though Jedediah is interested in going, he has been saving money to go back to school. "If I go on this trip,"he thinks, "I won't have enough money to enter graduate school for at least another year."This kind of if-then link is represented by
A) phenomenology.
B) self-efficacy.
C) reciprocal determinism.
D) behavior-outcome expectancies.

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Behavior-outcome expectancies refer to the anticipation of the consequences of a behavior, which in this case is Jedediah's expectation that spending money on the trip will delay his ability to afford graduate school.

Jedediah's Friends Have Asked Him to Accompany Them on a Trip