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General psychology

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General psychology

psychosurgery

Psychology; General psychology

A surgical procedure performed on brain tissue to alleviate a psychological disorder.

morality

Psychology; General psychology

A system of beliefs and values that ensures that individuals will keep their obligations to others in society and will behave in ways that do not interfere with the rights and interests of others.

signal detection theory (SDT)

Psychology; General psychology

A systematic approach to the problem of response bias that allows an experimenter to identify and separate the roles of sensory stimuli and the individual's criterion level in producing the final ...

insight therapy

Psychology; General psychology

A technique by which the therapist guides a patient toward discovering insights between present symptoms and past origins.

magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Psychology; General psychology

A technique for brain imaging that scans the brain using magnetic fields and radio waves.

elaborative rehearsal

Psychology; General psychology

A technique for improving memory by enriching the encoding of information.

counterconditioning

Psychology; General psychology

A technique used in therapy to substitute a new response for a maladaptive one by means of conditioning procedures.

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