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Psychology
The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.
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learned helplessness
Psychology; General psychology
A general pattern of nonresponding in the presence of noxious stimuli that often follows after an organism has previously experienced noncontingent, inescapable aversive stimuli.
contingency management
Psychology; General psychology
A general treatment strategy involving changing behavior by modifying its consequences.
self-esteem
Psychology; General psychology
A generalized evaluative attitude toward the self that influences both moods and behavior and that exerts a powerful effect on a range of personal and social behaviors.
overregularization
Psychology; General psychology
A grammatical error, usually appearing during early language development, in which rules of the language are applied too widely, resulting in incorrect linguistic forms.
psychometric function
Psychology; General psychology
A graph that plots the percentage of detections of a stimulus (on the vertical axis) for each stimulus intensity (on the horizontal axis).
client-centered therapy
Psychology; General psychology
A humanistic approach to treatment that emphasizes the healthy psychological growth of the individual; based on the assumption that all people share the basic tendency of human ...
diathesis-stress hypothesis
Psychology; General psychology
A hypothesis about the cause of certain disorders, such as schizophrenia, that suggests that genetic factors predispose an individual to a certain disorder, but that environmental ...
Sub-categories
- Behavior analysis (11155)
- Emotions (46)
- Feelings and states (263)
- General psychology (27052)
- Psychological disorders (166)
- Social psychology (356)