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Psychology Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Psychology | The study of human behavior |
3 things that make me who I am | Heredity, environment, and adaptation |
Freud | Id, ego, superego |
Conscious need | I am aware of |
Unconscious need | I am not aware of |
Defense mechanism | The way you protect yourself from emotional harm |
Projection | Putting your mistakes onto someone else |
Repression | Putting painful memories out of one’s conscious mind |
Denial | Refusing to believe that something has happened |
Rationalization | An excuse for doing something but not realizing that the excuse is the real reason |
Displaced aggression | Someone is agitated and unable to direct there emotions to the real reason |
Scapegoating | Projecting responsibility and blame on others |
Identification | Associating someone close with other, identifying someone, negative |
Perception | Taking in and processing information through your senses |
Mental set | Expectation of the way things should be |
Learning | Change in behavior caused by experience |
Experience pattern | The 4 steps in learning |
Stimulus | Anything that causes action |
Response | The way you react to a stimulus |