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General psychology

Elaborative rehearsal

Psychology; General psychology

A technique for improving memory by enriching the encoding of information.

Signal detection theory (SDT)

Psychology; General psychology

A systematic approach to the problem of response bias that allows an experimenter to identify and separate the roles of sensory stimuli and the individual's criterion level in producing the final ...

Representative sample

Psychology; General psychology

A subset of a population that closely matches the overall characteristics of the population with respect to the distribution of males and females, racial and ethnic groups, and so on.

Morality

Psychology; General psychology

A system of beliefs and values that ensures that individuals will keep their obligations to others in society and will behave in ways that do not interfere with the rights and interests of others.

Insight therapy

Psychology; General psychology

A technique by which the therapist guides a patient toward discovering insights between present symptoms and past origins.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Psychology; General psychology

A technique for brain imaging that scans the brain using magnetic fields and radio waves.

Counterconditioning

Psychology; General psychology

A technique used in therapy to substitute a new response for a maladaptive one by means of conditioning procedures.

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