Unit VI: Learning module 29

Question 1

preparedness

Answer 1

each species predispositions prepare them to learn the associations that enhance it’s survival

Question 2

taste aversion

Answer 2

after becoming sick after eating your are less likely to eat that food again

Question 3

Instinctive drift

Answer 3

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

Question 4

cognitive map

Answer 4

a mental representation of the layout of one’s environment

Question 5

latent learing

Answer 5

learning that occurs but it’s not operant until there is a incentive to demonstrate it

Question 6

insight learning

Answer 6

a sudden realization of a problem’s solution

Question 7

intrinsic motavation

Answer 7

a desire to preform a behavior effectivley for its own sake

Question 8

extrinsic motavation

Answer 8

a desire to preform a behavior to recieve promised rewards or avoid threatened punishment

Question 9

Problem-focused coping

Answer 9

attempting to alievate stress directly by changing the stressor or the way we interact with stressor

Question 10

emotion focused coping

Answer 10

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

Question 11

learned helplessness

Answer 11

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