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Basic Psychology

Ten Basic Psychology Terms

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Aphasia The impairment of the ability to communicate either through oral or written discourse as a result of brain damage.
Cognition The process of receiving, processing, storing, and using information.
Conformity Changing your attitudes, beliefs, thoughts, or behaviors in order to be more consistent with others.
Displacement The pushing out of older information in short term memory to make room for new information
Encoding The transformation of information to be stored in memory.
Framing Presenting information either positively or negatively in order to change the influence it has on an individual or group.
Flooding A behavioral technique used to treat phobias in which the client is presented with the feared stimulus until the associated anxiety disappears.
Homeostasis The tendency of the body (and the mind) to naturally gravitate toward a state of equilibrium or balance.
Instinct A behavior we are born with and therefore does not need to be learned.
Plasticity The ability of the brain, especially in our younger years, to compensate for damage.
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