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.