General psychology

General psychology

Information concerning Psychology in general.

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General psychology

Self-concept

Psychology; General psychology

A person's mental model of his or her abilities and attributes.

Covariation principle

Psychology; General psychology

A theory that suggests that people attribute a behaviour to a causal factor if that factor was present whenever the behaviour occurred but was absent whenever it did not occur.

Levels-of-processing theory

Psychology; General psychology

A theory that suggests that the deeper the level at which information was processed, the more likely it is to be retained in memory.

Placebo therapy

Psychology; General psychology

A therapy independent of any specific clinical procedures that results in client improvement.

A physical response to sudden terrifying or traumatic event. It causes a sudden discharge of adrenaline into the body that activates that sympathetic nervous system creating a increase in heart and ...

Cognitive behaviour modification

Psychology; General psychology

A therapeutic approach that combines the cognitive emphasis on the role of thoughts and attitudes influencing motivations and response with the behavioural emphasis on changing performance through ...

Centration

Psychology; General psychology

A thought pattern common during the beginning of the preoperational stage of cognitive development; characterised by the child's inability to take more than one perceptual factor into account at the ...