General psychology

General psychology

Information concerning Psychology in general.

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General psychology

Dissociative identity disorder (DID)

Psychology; General psychology

A dissociative mental disorder in which two or more distinct personalities exist within the same individual; formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

Inductive reasoning

Psychology; General psychology

A form of reasoning in which a conclusion is made about the probability of some state of affairs, based on the available evidence and past experience.

Deductive reasoning

Psychology; General psychology

A form of thinking in which one draws a conclusion that is intended to follow logically from two or more statements or premises.

Clinical ecology

Psychology; General psychology

A field of psychology that relates disorders such as anxiety and depression to environmental irritants and sources of trauma.

Amnesia

Psychology; General psychology

A failure of memory caused by physical injury, disease, drug use, or psychological trauma.

Fixation

Psychology; General psychology

A state in which a person remains attached to objects or activities more appropriate for an earlier stage of psychosexual development.

Relative motion parallax

Psychology; General psychology

A source of information about depth in which the relative distances of objects from a viewer determine the amount and direction of their relative motion in the retinal image.