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Cognitive-Affective Bases of Behavior
Cognitive-Affective Bases of Behavior
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Psychology
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08/08/2015

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Herberg's Two-Factor Theory suggests
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Increasing employees' responsibility will result in increased satisfaction and performance.
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Vroom Expectancy Theory suggests
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People will behave in expected manners and rewards will follow.
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Feature of speech that will most likely be remembered by listener.
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Semantic
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Primary reinforcers are
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something that will reinforce all people (e.g., food).
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Long-term potentiation is a process that affects
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Memory
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What is overjustification?
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When people are reinforced for a behavior they would normally do anyway. When reward is taken away, they lose interest in activity.
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Instrumental learning is another term for
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Operant conditioning
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The effects of extrinsic rewards on instrinsic motivation is
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that instrinsic motivation may not be decreased if the extrinsic motivation is based on competency
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What is a utility analysis?
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Method that measures effectiveness of an intervention in a workplace in terms of dollar value benefits.
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Lazarus had what components in the theory of emotion, stress, and coping?
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Primary appraisal, secondary appraisal, and re-appraisal
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What is the Rosenthal effect?
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
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What is confabulation?
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Recitation of fabricated or imagined information when people try to fill in memory gaps.
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What is the difference between iconic memory and echoic memory?
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visual vs auditory
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Long-term memory is divided into what two groups?
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Recent (up to 2 weeks), Remote (2 years or more)
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What is redintigration?
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When something spurns a chain of memories (e.g., smell of something in the past)
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What is prospective memory?
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Remembering to do something one had planned at a particular time
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What is the serial position effect?
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Being able to remember the beginning and end of word lists on immediate recall
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What is the difference between retroactive and proactive interference?
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Retroactive states that recently learned information affects ability to recall information, proactive when previously learned information afect the ability to learn current material
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What is the Method of Loci?
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A mnemonic device that uses a visual image of one's items on a list and puts them in a specific place
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What is a peg-word system?
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Assigning a peg something on a list (1 thru 10)
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