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General psychology
Information concerning Psychology in general.
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General psychology
Fight-or-flight response
Psychology; General psychology
A sequence of internal activities triggered when an organism is faced with a threat; prepares the body for combat and struggle or for running away to safety; recent evidence suggests that the ...
Belief-bias effect
Psychology; General psychology
A situation that occurs when a person's prior knowledge, attitudes, or values distort the reasoning process by influencing the person to accept invalid arguments.
Gestalt psychology
Psychology; General psychology
A school of psychology that maintains that psychological phenomena can be understood only when viewed as organized, structured wholes, not when broken down into primitive perceptual elements.
Tolerance
Psychology; General psychology
A situation that occurs with continued use of a drug in which an individual requires greater dosages to achieve the same effect.
Standardisation
Psychology; General psychology
A set of uniform procedures for treating each participant in a test, interview, or experiment or for recording data.
Behaviourism
Psychology; General psychology
A scientific approach that limits the study of psychology to measurable or observable behavior.
PET scans
Psychology; General psychology
Brain images produced by a device that obtains detailed pictures of activity in the living brain by recording the radioactivity emitted by cells during different cognitive or behavioural activities.
