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Behavioral therapy
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A form of psychotherapy that uses basic learning techniques to modify maladaptive behavior patterns by substituting new responses to given stimuli for undesirable ones.
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MMPI
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a self-report personality inventory consisting of 550 items that describe feelings or actions which the person is asked to agree with or disagree with; many scales estimating traits and qualities of personality have been developed using MMPI items [syn: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory]
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Afferent
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a nerve carrying a message toward the central nervous system.
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efferent
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conveying or conducting away from an organ or part (opposed to afferent ).
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Piaget
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Swiss child psychologist noted for his studies of intellectual and cognitive development in children.
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Humanistic Therapy
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school of psychology that emerged in the 1950s in reaction to both behaviorism and psychoanalysis. It is explicitly concerned with the human dimension of psychology and the human context for the development of psychological theory.
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Somatoform Disorders
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any of a group ofpsychological disorders (as body dysmorphic disorder or hypochondriasis) marked by physical complaints for which no organic or physiological explanation is found and for which there is a stronglikelihood that psychological factors are involved
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latent learning
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learning that is not demonstrated by behavior at the time it is held to take place but that is inferred to exist based on a greater than expected number of favorable or desired responses at a later time when reinforcement is given
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thorazine
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a drug (trade name Thorazine) derived from phenothiazine that has antipsychotic effects and is used as a sedative and tranquilizer, a central nervous system depressant
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dream analysis
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the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.
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erikson
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German-born American psychoanalyst who proposed that people acquire mature psychosexual traits by overcoming a series of personal crises. His works include Childhood and Society (1950).
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free association
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A spontaneous, logically unconstrained and undirected association of ideas, emotions, and feelings.
A psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's articulation of free associations is encouraged in order to reveal unconscious thoughts and emotions, such as traumatic experiences that have been repressed. |
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kohlberg
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Stages of Moral Development
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validity/ reliability
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used to prove an expiriment good
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