Glossary of terms used on this site
Glossaries
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amnesia |
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loss of long-term memory that occurs as the result of disease, physical trauma, or psychological trauma |
amygdala |
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amygdala |
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structure in the limbic system involved in our experience of emotion and tying emotional meaning to our memories |
anal stage |
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psychosexual stage in which children experience pleasure in their bowel and bladder |
analytical intelligence |
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aligned with academic problem solving and computations |
analytical psychology |
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Jung’s theory focusing on the balance of opposing forces within one’s personality and the significance of the collective unconscious |
anchoring bias |
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faulty heuristic in which you fixate on a single aspect of a problem to find a solution |
anorexia nervosa |
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eating disorder characterized by an individual maintaining body weight that is well below average through starvation and/or excessive exercise |
antagonist |
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drug that blocks or impedes the normal activity of a given neurotransmitter |
anterograde amnesia |
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anterograde amnesia |
anterograde amnesia |
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loss of memory for events that occur after the brain trauma |
archetype |
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pattern that exists in our collective unconscious across cultures and societies |
archival research |
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method of research using past records or data sets to answer various research questions, or to search for interesting patterns or relationships |
arousal theory |
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strong emotions trigger the formation of strong memories and weaker emotional experiences form weaker memories |
artificial concept |
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concept that is defined by a very specific set of characteristics |