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General psychology
Information concerning Psychology in general.
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General psychology
Alzheimer's disease
Psychology; General psychology
A chronic organic brain syndrome characterised by gradual loss of memory, decline in intellectual ability, and deterioration of personality.
Self-serving bias
Psychology; General psychology
A class of attributional biases in which people tend to take credit for their successes and deny responsibility for their failures.
Representativeness heuristic
Psychology; General psychology
A cognitive strategy that assigns an object to a category on the basis of a few characteristics regarded as representative of that category.
Residual stress pattern
Psychology; General psychology
A chronic syndrome in which the emotional responses of posttraumatic stress persist over time.
Neuron
Psychology; General psychology
A cell in the nervous system specialised to receive, process, and/or transmit information to other cells.
Compliance
Psychology; General psychology
A change in behaviour consistent with a communication source's direct requests.
Placebo effect
Psychology; General psychology
A change in behaviour in the absence of an experimental manipulation.
