Chapter 2: Becoming a Better Student Flashcards

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Offers rest to the brain and nervous system.

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Sleep

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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

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Nutrition

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Are important for both the mind and the body.

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Recreation and Exercise

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4
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Being able to do what you should and stop doing what you should not

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Self-Discipline

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5
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The quality or state of a sound emotional balance.

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Emotionality

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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.

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Objectivity

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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.

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Fight-or-Flight Response

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This type of stress does not elicit a fight-or-flight response but rather persuasion, bartering, searching, and producing.

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Basic Problem of Obtaining Food

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9
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Inevitable, third primal stress

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Death

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10
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3 Physiologic Needs

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Nutrition, Sleep, Recreation and Exercise

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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.

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Reinforcement Behavior

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A response that can occur when your behavior or that of another fails to produce the desired or expected results.

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Stress

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The tension that results to disagreements between incompatible needs or drives either within you or others.

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Conflict

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14
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2 Types of Conflict

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Role Assignment & Identity

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15
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7 ways people behave when confronted with conflict.

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(AIDIMWC) Attack, Internalize, Deny, Isolate, Manipulate, Withdraw, Confront

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16
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Learning word-by-word with little internalization.

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Rote Memorization

17
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Occurs in your deliberate pursuit of knowledge in a systematic or planned study situation.

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Intentional Memorization

18
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Can be defined as our recognition and interpretation of sensory information.

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Perception

19
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Means concentrating on one activity to the exclusion of others.

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Attention

20
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Refers to the continuing storage of information.

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Long-Term Memory

21
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The capacity for holding a small amount of information in mind in an active, readily available state for a short period of time.

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Short-Term Memory

22
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Allows you to partially but not entirely forget pain.

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Survival mechanism