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Module 28-30AP Psych
Module 28-30 AP Psych Unit 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Computer assisted learning | has helped skimmers goal of individually paced instruction and immediate feedback |
| Biofeedback | a system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state (blood pressure or muscle tension) |
| 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 |
| Latent learning | learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it |
| Insight | A sudden realization of problems solutions, contrast with strategy-based solutions |
| Intrinsic motivation | a desire to preform a behavior effectively for its own sake |
| Extrinsic motivation | a desire to perform a behavior to receive promised rewards or avoid threatened punishment |
| problem-solving 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 attempting 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 |
| observational learning | learning by observing others |
| modeling | the process of observing and imitating a specific behavior |
| mirror neurons | frontal lobe neurons that some scientist believe fire when we perform certain actions or observe another doing so |
| prosocial behavior | positive, constructive, helpful behavior |
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