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General psychology
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Divergent thinking
Psychology; General psychology
An aspect of creativity characterised by an ability to produce unusual but appropriate responses to problems.
Bulimia nervosa
Psychology; General psychology
An eating disorder characterised by binge eating followed by measures to purge the body of the excess calories.
Weber's law
Psychology; General psychology
An assertion that the size of a difference threshold is proportional to the intensity of the standard stimulus.
Unconditioned response (UCR)
Psychology; General psychology
In classical conditioning, the response elicited by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training or learning.
Conditioned response (CR)
Psychology; General psychology
In classical conditioning, a response elicited by some previously neutral stimulus that occurs as a result of pairing the neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus.
Conditioned reinforcers
Psychology; General psychology
In classical conditioning, formerly neutral stimuli that have become reinforcers.
Mental age
Psychology; General psychology
In Binet's measure of intelligence, the age at which a child is performing intellectually, expressed in terms of the average "age at which normal children achieve a particular score.
