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module 29
reading check
Question | Answer |
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preparedness | a biological predisposition to learn associations, such as between taste and nausea, that have survival value. |
instinctive drift | the tendency of learned behavior to gradually revert to biologically predisposed patterns. |
cognitive map | a mental representation of the layout of one’s environment. For example, after exploring a maze, rats act as if they have learned a cognitive map of it. |
latent learning | learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it. |
insight | a sudden realization of a problem’s solution; contrasts with strategy-based solutions. |
intrinsic motivation | a desire to perform a behavior effectively for its own sake. |
extrinsic motivation | a desire to perform a behavior to receive promised rewards or avoid threatened punishment. |
problem-focused coping | attempting to alleviate stress directly—by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor. |
emotion-focused coping | attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to our stress reaction. |
personal control | our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless. |
learned helplessness | the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or person learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events. |
external locus of control | the perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate. |
internal locus of control | the perception that we control our own fate. |
self-control | the ability to control impulses and delay short-term gratification for greater long-term rewards. |