General psychology

General psychology

Information concerning Psychology in general.

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Group dynamics

Psychology; General psychology

The study of how group processes change individual functioning.

Genetics

Psychology; General psychology

The study of the inheritance of physical and psychological traits from ancestors.

The theoretical tendency for humans to return to a fixed level of happiness over time, regardless of large positive or negative events happening in their life. As a result, people are always making ...

Diathesis-stress hypothesis

Psychology; General psychology

A hypothesis about the cause of certain disorders, such as schizophrenia, that suggests that genetic factors predispose an individual to a certain disorder, but that environmental stress factors must ...

Client-centered therapy

Psychology; General psychology

A humanistic approach to treatment that emphasises the healthy psychological growth of the individual; based on the assumption that all people share the basic tendency of human nature toward ...

Learned helplessness

Psychology; General psychology

A general pattern of nonresponding in the presence of noxious stimuli that often follows after an organism has previously experienced noncontingent, inescapable aversive stimuli.

Overregularization

Psychology; General psychology

A grammatical error, usually appearing during early language development, in which rules of the language are applied too widely, resulting in incorrect linguistic forms.