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People who are high in ______ tend to engage in activities that have immediate short-term appeal. |
impulsivity |
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Evolutionary psychology, in contrast to sociobiology, emphasizes the idea that |
acting in a selfless manner has an evolutionary advantage. |
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Impulsive is to the ‘hot system’ as ______ is to the ‘cool system’. |
self-control |
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Activation of the ______ serves to promote the suppression of inappropriate behavior. |
behavioral inhibition system |
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Feelings |
can influence the approach or avoidant direction of behavior. |
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Contemporary motivation theory assumes that all behavior represents an attempt to adapt. This illustrates a strong influence of _________ psychology on current thinking about motivation. |
evolutionary |
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The existence of the reward pathway in the brain indicates, among other things, that |
there is a biological basis for feelings of pleasure and biological systems to help us acquire adaptive behaviors. |
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Which of the following best illustrates the idea that humans may have evolved to ‘err on the side of caution’? |
running when startled |
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Which of the following is most strongly associated with the idea that innate predispositions can be altered (at least somewhat) by certain experiences or thought processes? |
plasticity of brain structures |
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_______ is thought to depend upon ‘receptor orientation and selective attention’, while ___ is thought to depend upon ‘organizational tendencies to construct meaning’. |
Associative learning; cognitive learning |
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Which of the following can best be characterized as focusing more on ‘long-term decision making’ as opposed to ‘short-term situational decision-making’? |
goal-setting theory |
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Self-efficacy refers to |
beliefs about capabilities to succeed. |
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Conditional love, according to Carl Rogers, develops when people
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are loved for what they do. |
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Moods |
are useful in helping us to understand and redirect our behavior. |
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Because attention is not always under voluntary control, psychologists often make a distinction between |
deliberate and incidental learning. |