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Behavioral engagement is the observable act of students being involved in learning;

it refers to students' participation in academic activities and efforts to perform academic tasks .

Explanation

 Prosocial behavior is a behavior that benefits society or other people and including a wide range of actions such as donating, sharing, helping, and co-operating.

Obeying the rules and adaptation of socially accepted behaviors like paying for groceries or stopping at the stop sign are also regarded as Prosocial behavior.

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 Distributed practice is also known as the spaced practice or spaced repetition.

It is a learning strategy where practice occurs in various short sessions over a long period of time.

There is an amount of space between every session.

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 In 1890, William James published the first work about brain activity patterns.

William James was an American philosopher and psychologist.

The principles of psychology is a book written by an American psychologist, William James.

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Sensory adaptation occurs when the sensory receptors become exposed to stimuli for a long period.

It refers to a reduction in sensitivity to a stimulus after constant exposure to it.

It can occur with our basic senses.

There are multiple examples of sensory adaptation in everyday life.

As an instance, people who smoke no longer notice the smell of cigarette smoke.

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The serial-position effect was first discovered by Herman Ebbinghaus.

He was an American psychologist.

The serial-position effect can be defined as a tendency in

which the accuracy of recalling the first and last items in the list is greater,

and the accuracy of recalling the items in the middle is worst.

Explanation

 The serial-position effect can be defined as a tendency in which the accuracy of recalling the first and last items in the list is greater,

and the accuracy of recalling the items in the middle is worst.

The Serial-position effect involves two concepts that are the primacy effect and the recency effect.

In the primacy effect, the accuracy of recalling the items at the beginning of the list is greater than the middle items.

In the recency effect, the accuracy of recalling the items at the end of the list is greater than the items in the middle.

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Creativity is the ability to generate innovative ideas and manifests them from thought to reality.

J.P. Guilford  was an American psychologist.

He is best remembered for the psychometric study of human intelligence.

Explanation

The frontal lobe is a part of the brain.

It controls the important cognitive skills of humans, such as memory, language, problem-solving, emotional expression, and others.

The symptoms of damaging the frontal lobe are changes in behavior, reduced creativity,

reduced sense of taste and smell, inability to problem-solve or organize tasks, depression, etc.

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 Positron emission tomography or PET is a technique for imaging the brain in action.

The PET images show the active brain regions.

Positron emission tomography technique is a scanning method

that enables doctors and psychologists to study the brain without surgery.