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  2. Grit (personality trait) - Wikipedia

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    Grit enables a person to persevere in accomplishing a goal despite obstacles over an extended period. [4] When compared with the construct of persistence, grit adds the component of passion for the goal. [18] This goal-passion contributes to the ability of the person to sustain effort over the long term. hardiness

  3. Perseveration - Wikipedia

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    Perseveration, in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and speech–language pathology, is the repetition of a particular response (such as a word, phrase, or gesture) regardless of the absence or cessation of a stimulus. It is usually caused by a brain injury or other organic disorder. [1]

  4. Gaman (term) - Wikipedia

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    Gaman (我慢) is a Japanese term of Zen Buddhist origin which means "enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity". [1] [2] The term is generally translated as "perseverance", "patience", or "tolerance". [3]

  5. Persistence (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Persistence(PS) is a key personality trait identified by psychiatrist C. Robert Cloninger in his Psychobiological Model of Personality. [1] It describes an individual's propensity to remain motivated, resilient and goal-driven in the face of challenges and difficulties they may encounter whilst carrying out tasks and working towards goals.

  6. Personality change - Wikipedia

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    Individuals will change their behavior based on the ideas in their environment that emit rewards and punishments. Some of these ideas might be implicit, like social roles. The individual changes his or her personality to fit into a social role if it is favorable. Other ideas might be more explicit like a parent trying to change a child's ...

  7. Behavior change (individual) - Wikipedia

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    This change is generally characterized by changes in thinking, interpretations, emotions, or relationships. These changes can be either good or bad, depending on which behavior is being affected. Often, it takes much more work to change behavior for the better than it does to experience a negative change.

  8. Behavioral cusp - Wikipedia

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    A behavioral cusp is any behavior change that brings an organism's behavior into contact with new contingencies that have far-reaching consequences. [1] A behavioral cusp is a special type of behavior change because it provides the learner with opportunities to access new reinforcers, new contingencies, new environments, new related behaviors (generativeness [2]) and competition with archaic ...

  9. Applied behavior analysis - Wikipedia

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    ABA is an applied science devoted to developing procedures which will produce observable changes in behavior. [3] [9] It is to be distinguished from the experimental analysis of behavior, which focuses on basic experimental research, [10] but it uses principles developed by such research, in particular operant conditioning and classical conditioning.