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Mod 29 Flashcards

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What is preparedness?

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Learning associations that prepare us for survival

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What are taste aversions?

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avoiding foods that have caused illness/sick feeling

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What is instinctive drift?

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the tendency of learned behaviors to gradually revert to our biological patterns

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What is secondary disgust?

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Aversion that reminds us something is gross

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What is a cognitive map?

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a mental representation of the layout of ones environment

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What is latent learning?

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Learning that occurs but isn’t apparent

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What is insight learning?

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Solution to an issue is suddenly understood or appears in a flash

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What is insight?

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An abrupt link/soluton

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What is aversion?

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Stuff we dislike

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What is intrinsic motivation?

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the desire to preform behavior efficiently for ourselves

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What is extrinsic motivation?

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behaving in ways that gin external rewards/punishments

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What is problem focused coping?

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dealing with the problem at hand.

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What is emotional focused coping?

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Ignoring or gossiping to others about the issue.

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What is personal control?

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our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless

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What is learned helplessness/optimism?

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Hopelessness learned when unable to avoid repeated aversive events/optimism gained after constantly succeeding

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What is External locus of control?

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Perception that chance/outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate

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What is internal locus of control?

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The belief that I control my own destiny

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What is self control?

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ability to control impulses and delay short term gratification for longer term rewards

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What is developed expectancy?

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Belief that one’s effort will lead to desired outcomes

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What is overjustification effect?

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external reward decreases a person’s intrinsic motivation to perform an activity they once enjoyed

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