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The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.
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dream work
Psychology; General psychology
In Freudian dream analysis, the process by which the internal censor transforms the latent content of a dream into manifest content.
manifest content
Psychology; General psychology
In Freudian dream analysis, the surface content of a dream, which is assumed to mask the dream's actual meaning.
schedules of reinforcement
Psychology; General psychology
In operant conditioning, the patterns of delivering and withholding reinforcement.
life-change units (LCUs)
Psychology; General psychology
In stress research, the measure of the stress levels of different types of change experienced during a given period.
priming
Psychology; General psychology
In the assessment of implicit memory, the advantage conferred by prior exposure to a word or situation.
distal stimulus
Psychology; General psychology
In the processes of perception, the physical object in the world, as contrasted with the proximal stimulus, the optical image on the retina.
guided search
Psychology; General psychology
In visual perception, a parallel search of the environment for single, basic attributes that guides attention to likely locations of objects with more complex combinations of ...
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