Chapter 2: Becoming a Better Student Flashcards
Offers rest to the brain and nervous system.
Sleep
Learning is easier with a sound body, and a sound body can help produce a sound mind. Nutritional biochemical keep body cells healthy and functioning, and these biochemical come from only one source
Nutrition
Are important for both the mind and the body.
Recreation and Exercise
Being able to do what you should and stop doing what you should not
Self-Discipline
The quality or state of a sound emotional balance.
Emotionality
The quality or state of being objective; that is, the ability to interpret a situation from an unbiased point of view rather than from your own subjective view.
Objectivity
A set of physiological changes, such as increases in heart rate, arterial blood pressure, and blood glucose, initiated by the sympathetic nervous system to mobilize body systems in response to stress.
Fight-or-Flight Response
This type of stress does not elicit a fight-or-flight response but rather persuasion, bartering, searching, and producing.
Basic Problem of Obtaining Food
Inevitable, third primal stress
Death
3 Physiologic Needs
Nutrition, Sleep, Recreation and Exercise
The presentation of a stimulus following a response that increases the frequency of subsequent responses, whether positive to desirable events, or negative to undesirable events which are reinforced in their removal.
Reinforcement Behavior
A response that can occur when your behavior or that of another fails to produce the desired or expected results.
Stress
The tension that results to disagreements between incompatible needs or drives either within you or others.
Conflict
2 Types of Conflict
Role Assignment & Identity
7 ways people behave when confronted with conflict.
(AIDIMWC) Attack, Internalize, Deny, Isolate, Manipulate, Withdraw, Confront
Learning word-by-word with little internalization.
Rote Memorization
Occurs in your deliberate pursuit of knowledge in a systematic or planned study situation.
Intentional Memorization
Can be defined as our recognition and interpretation of sensory information.
Perception
Means concentrating on one activity to the exclusion of others.
Attention
Refers to the continuing storage of information.
Long-Term Memory
The capacity for holding a small amount of information in mind in an active, readily available state for a short period of time.
Short-Term Memory
Allows you to partially but not entirely forget pain.
Survival mechanism
