Amnesia- Memory loss that occurs without other mental
difficulties.
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Bipolar Disorder- A disorder in which a person alternates
between periods of euphoric feelings of mania.
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Classical Conditioning- A type of learning in which a
neutral stimulus comes to bring about a response after it is paired with a
stimulus that naturally brings about that response.
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Defense Mechanism- In Freudian theory, unconscious
strategies that people use to reduce anxiety by distorting reality and
concealing the source of the anxiety from themselves.
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Ego- The part of the personality that a buffer between the
id and the outside world.
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Fixations- Conflicts or concerns that persist beyond the
developmental period in which they first occur.
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Genital stage- According to Freud, the period from puberty
until death, marked by mature sexual behavior.
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Halo Effect- A phenomenon in which an initial understanding
that a person has positive traits is used to infer other uniformly positive
characteristics.
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Id- The raw, unorganized, inborn part of personality whose
sole purpose is to reduce tension created by primitive drives related to
hunger, sex, aggression, and irrational impulses.
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Korsakoff’s Syndrome- A disease that afflicts long-term
alcoholics, leaving some abilities intact but including hallucinations and a
tendency to repeat the same story.
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Latent learning- Learning in which a new behavior is
acquired but is not demonstrated until some incentive is provided for
displaying it.
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Motivation- The factors that direct and energize the
behavior of humans and other organisms.
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Nature- Nurture Issue- The issue of the degree to which
environment and heredity influence behavior.
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Operant Conditioning- Learning in which a voluntary response
is strengthened or weakened, depending on its favorable or unfavorable
conditioning.
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Personality- The pattern of enduring charatersitics that
produce consistency and individuality in a given person.
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Reinforcement- The process by which a stimulus increases the
probability that a preceding behavior will be repeated.
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Self- actualization- A state of self-fulfillment in which
people realize their highest potential in their own unique way.
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Tip-of-the tongue phenomenon- The inability to recall
information that one realizes one knows- a result of the difficulty of
retrieving information from long-term memory.
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Unconditioned response- A response that is natural and needs
no training.
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Variables- Behavior, events, or other characterisitcs that
can change or vary, in some way.
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Weight set point- The particular level of weight that the
body strives to maintain.
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