General psychology

General psychology

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General psychology

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 nature toward ...

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 stress factors must ...