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General psychology
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Intelligence
Psychology; General psychology
The global capacity to profit from experience and to go beyond given information about the environment.
Spontaneous-remission effect
Psychology; General psychology
The improvement of some mental patients and clients in psychotherapy without any professional intervention; a baseline criterion against which the effectiveness of therapies must be assessed.
Self-perception theory
Psychology; General psychology
The idea that people observe themselves in order to figure out the reasons they act as they do; people infer what their internal states are by perceiving how they are acting in a given situation.
Dissociative amnesia
Psychology; General psychology
The inability to remember important personal experiences, caused by psychological factors in the absence of any organic dysfunction.
Possible selves
Psychology; General psychology
The ideal selves that a person would like to become, the selves a person could become, and the selves a person is afraid of becoming; components of the cognitive sense of self.
Reciprocal altruism
Psychology; General psychology
The idea that people perform altruistic behaviours because they expect that others will perform altruistic behaviours for them in turn.
Dark adaptation
Psychology; General psychology
The gradual improvement of the eyes' sensitivity after a shift in illumination from light to near darkness.
