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Instability is an organizational climate in which people are not sure what to do.
Deutsch: Augenblick / Español: Instante / Português: Instante / Français: Instant / Italian: Istante
Instant in the psychology context refers to a very brief and immediate moment in time. In psychological terms, it often pertains to processes or responses that occur in a fraction of a second, highlighting the Immediacy and speed of cognitive and emotional reactions.
Instant repairs refer to self -repair in which the speaker traces back to an error that is then replaced with the correct word.
Please see also Anticipatory retracing and fresh start.
Instinct is defined as an impulsion towards certain activities. Those psychic processes over which the ego has no control.
Instinctive drift refers to an instance of classical conditioning in which a genetically based, fixed action pattern gradually emerges and displaces a behavior that is being operantly conditioned; the tendency for behavior to drift toward a Fixed action pattern.
Instinctive drift also refers to the substitution of instinctive behaviors for behaviors that had been reinforced.