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General psychology
Information concerning Psychology in general.
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Atavizm
Psychology; General psychology
Atavism is employed by a certain school of evolutionistic psychologists to express traits in the individual, especially the child, that are assumed to be, as it were, reminiscences of past conditions ...
Neurolinguistics
Psychology; General psychology
The branch of linguistics concerned with the relationship between language and the brain.A field in psychology relating to the brain.
Goal-directed selection
Psychology; General psychology
A determinant of why people select some parts of sensory input for further processing; it reflects the choices made as a function of one's own goals.
Addiction
Psychology; General psychology
Any time a person continues to exhibit harmful or obsessive behavior, we can say that they are addicted. There are many, many types of addictions, from gambling, to sex, to drugs and alcohol.
Chronic stress
Psychology; General psychology
A continuous state of arousal in which an individual perceives demands as greater than the inner and outer resources available for dealing with them.
Stimulus discrimination
Psychology; General psychology
A conditioning process in which an organism learns to respond differently to stimuli that differ from the conditioned stimulus on some dimension.
Circadian rhythm
Psychology; General psychology
A consistent pattern of cyclical body activities, usually lasting 24 to 25 hours and determined by an internal biological clock.
