Psychology
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| show | A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.
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| HOMEOSTASIS | show 🗑
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| show | The point at which your "weight thermostat" is supposedly set. When you body falls below, increased hunger and a lowered metabolic rate may combine to restore the lost weight.
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| show | A neural structure lying below the thalamus; it directs several maintenance activities (eating drinking, body temperature), helps govern the endocrine system via the pituitary gland, and is linked to emotion and reward.
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| show | The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues. When its level is low, we feel hunger.
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| show | Improved performance on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others.
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| PSYCHONEROIMMUNOLOGY | show 🗑
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| show | In psychology, the idea that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy)relieves aggressive urges.
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| show | The perception that you control your life.
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| show | The perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate.
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| show | People's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.
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| ADAPTION-LEVEL PHENOMENON | show 🗑
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| show | The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself.
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| SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM | show 🗑
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| show | The tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings, such as fear, anger, or happiness.
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| PERSONALITY | show 🗑
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| show | View personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences.
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| show | According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware.
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| show | In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says what ever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.
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| show | A personality test, such as the Rorschach, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics.
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| show | View personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth.
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| show | A questionnaire (often with true/false or agree/disagree items) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to asses selected personality traits.
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