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General psychology
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Aversion therapy
Psychology; General psychology
A type of behavioural therapy used to treat individuals attracted to harmful stimuli; an attractive stimulus is paired with a noxious stimulus in order to elicit a negative reaction to the target ...
Participant modelling
Psychology; General psychology
A therapeutic technique in which a therapist demonstrates the desired behaviour and a client is aided, through supportive encouragement, to imitate the modelled behavior.
Flooding
Psychology; General psychology
A therapy for phobias in which clients are exposed, with their permission, to the stimuli most frightening to them.
Inhibitory inputs
Psychology; General psychology
Information entering a neuron signalling it not to fire.
Case study
Psychology; General psychology
Intensive observation of a particular individual or small group of individuals.
Excitatory inputs
Psychology; General psychology
Information entering a neuron that signals it to fire.
Guided search
Psychology; General psychology
In visual perception, a parallel search of the environment for single, basic attributes that guides attention to likely locations of objects with more complex combinations of attributes.
