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The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.
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Psychology; General psychology
A thought pattern common during the beginning of the preoperational stage of cognitive development; characterized by the child's inability to take more than one perceptual factor ...
acute stress
Psychology; General psychology
A physical response to sudden terrifying or traumatic event. It causes a sudden discharge of adrenaline into the body that activates that sympathetic nervous system creating a ...
aversion therapy
Psychology; General psychology
A type of behavioral therapy used to treat individuals attracted to harmful stimuli; an attractive stimulus is paired with a noxious stimulus in order to elicit a negative ...
classical conditioning
Psychology; General psychology
A type of learning in which a behavior (conditioned response) comes to be elicited by a stimulus (conditioned stimulus) that has acquired its power through an association with a ...
cognitive therapy
Psychology; General psychology
A type of psychotherapeutic treatment that attempts to change feelings and behaviors by changing the way a client thinks about or perceives significant life experiences.
archetype
Psychology; General psychology
A universal, inherited, primitive, and symbolic representation of a particular experience or object.
accommodation
Psychology; General psychology
According to Piaget, the process of restructuring or modifying cognitive structures so that new information can fit into them more easily; this process works in tandem with ...
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- Behavior analysis (11155)
- Emotions (46)
- Feelings and states (263)
- General psychology (27052)
- Psychological disorders (166)
- Social psychology (356)