General psychology

General psychology

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centration

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 into account at the ...

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 increase in heart and ...

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 reaction to the target ...

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 biologically ...

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 assimilation.