AP Psychology Module 29

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.

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.

Insight

A sudden realization of a problem's solution.

Coping

Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods.

Emotion-Focused Coping

Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to on's stress reaction.

Problem-Focused Coping

Attempting to alleviate stress directly- by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor.

Latent Learning

Learning that occurs but is not apparent until thee is an incentive to demonstrate it.

Self-Control

The ability to control impulses and delay short-term gratification for greater long-term rewards

Learned Helplessness

The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human 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 you control your own fate.

Taste Aversion

Out taste sense's ability to adapt and tell us not to eat toxic food.