FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MODULE

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MODULE

28-30AP PSYCH EXAM QUESTIONS

Qs and Ans Expert- Explanation

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-Guarantee passing score -20 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert- Explanation

Question 1: instinctive drift

Answer:

the tendency of learned behavior to gradually revert to biologically predisposed patterns

Question 2: Cognitive map

Answer:

A mental representation of the layout of one's environment

Question 3: Biofeedback

Answer:

a system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state (blood pressure or muscle tension)

Question 4: external locus of control

Answer:

the perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate

Question 5: Insight

Answer:

A sudden realization of problems solutions, contrast with strategy-based solutions

Question 6: Intrinsic motivation

Answer:

a desire to preform a behavior effectively for its own sake

Question 7: emotion-focused coping

Answer:

attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attempting to emotional needs related to our stress reaction

Question 8: personal control

Answer:

our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless

Question 9: Latent learning

Answer:

learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it

Question 10: problem-solving coping

Answer:

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

Question 11: prosocial behavior

Answer:

positive, constructive, helpful behavior

Question 12: mirror neurons

Answer:

frontal lobe neurons that some scientist believe fire when we perform certain actions or observe another doing so

Question 13: modeling

Answer:

the process of observing and imitating a specific behavior

Question 14: internal locus of control

Answer:

the perception that we control our own fate

Question 15: preparedness

Answer:

a biological predisposition to learn associations such as between taste and nausea, that have survival value

Question 16: Extrinsic motivation

Answer:

a desire to perform a behavior to receive promised rewards or avoid threatened punishment

Question 17: self-control

Answer:

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

Question 18: observational learning

Answer:

learning by observing others

Question 19: learned helplessness

Answer:

The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or person learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events

Question 20: Computer assisted learning

Answer:

has helped skimmers goal of individually paced instruction and immediate feedback