Tuesday, April 28, 2015

ABCs

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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