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General psychology

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General psychology

Observer bias

Psychology; General psychology

The distortion of evidence because of the personal motives and expectations of the viewer.

Unconscious

Psychology; General psychology

The domain of the psyche that stores repressed urges and primitive impulses.

Comorbidity

Psychology; General psychology

The experience of more than one disorder at the same time.

Absolute threshold

Psychology; General psychology

The smallest intensity of a stimulus that has to be present for the stimulus to be detected. Let's use an example to clear this up. Think of an electric burner on a stove. Imagine turning that burner ...

Stigma

Psychology; General psychology

The negative reaction of people to an individual or group because of some assumed inferiority or source of difference that is degraded.

Memory

Psychology; General psychology

The mental capacity to encode, store, and retrieve information.

Sexual arousal

Psychology; General psychology

The motivational state of excitement and tension brought about by physiological and cognitive reactions to erotic stimuli.

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