PTE

The allocation of attention to more than one task or source of information.

Processes that influence which emotions occur, how strongly or how long they are felt, or how they are expressed.

To understand and relate to another person's feelings or experiences from their perspective.

Coming from outside an activity itself, especially as a separate reward or reason for doing it.

A rapid bodily response to a perceived threat that prepares a person or animal to confront it or escape.

A change in judgment caused by the way the same or equivalent information is presented.

A pattern in which a group's desire for agreement interferes with careful evaluation of ideas and alternatives.

An experience-based decline in a behavioral response after a stimulus is presented repeatedly, distinct from sensory adaptation or motor fatigue.

A situation in which the amount of available information exceeds a person's ability to process or use it effectively.

Arising from the interest or satisfaction of an activity itself rather than from an outside reward.

An immediate feeling or understanding that arises without deliberate step-by-step reasoning.

Based on an immediate feeling or understanding rather than conscious step-by-step reasoning.

A tendency to give greater psychological weight to a loss than to an equivalent gain.

An increase in a behavior's future likelihood because it removes, prevents, or delays something unpleasant.

A feeling of affection and longing for an earlier time or experience.

The understanding that an object continues to exist when it is no longer directly perceived.

Learning in which the consequences of a behavior change how likely that behavior is to occur again.

An increase in a behavior's future likelihood because something is added after that behavior.

Intended to benefit other people or support their well-being.

A process in which a consequence increases the likelihood that a behavior will occur again.

Focusing on selected information while giving less attention to competing information.

Memory for general facts, concepts, and meanings, rather than for a particular personal experience.

Relating to the senses or the information they receive.

A person's characteristic style of emotional reaction, activity, and self-regulation, often apparent early in life.

The understanding that other people have beliefs, intentions, and feelings that may differ from one's own and guide their behavior.

A mental system that briefly holds information while a person actively uses or changes it during a task.

The study of humans, including their cultures, biological development, and ways of life across time and place.

To become more similar to a surrounding cultural group by adopting its practices or ways of life.

Connected with, or participating in, two cultural traditions or ways of life.