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| The persistence of learning over time through storage and retrieval of information. |
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| A monumentary Sensory memory of visual stimuli' a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second. |
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| A monumentary Sensory memory of auditory stimuli;; if attention is elsewhere , sounds and words can still be recalled within 3 or 4 seconds. |
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| All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. |
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| A few broad concepts divided and subdivided into narrower concepts and facts. |
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| A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error prone than algorithms. |
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| Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited. |
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| Emotional release. in psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that releasing aggressive energy relieves aggressive urges. |
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| a sub field of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine. |
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| The process by which we perceive and respond to stressors. |
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| Freidman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, angry people. |
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| Friedman and Rosenman's term for easy going, relaxed people. |
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| Organizing items into familiar, manageable units. |
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| memory aids, especially those techniques that use imagery and organizational devices. |
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| the activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory. |
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| the eerie sense that "I've experienced this before." |
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| a mental image or best example of a category. |
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| A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore contradictions. |
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| the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions. |
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| a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem. |
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| Psycho-physiological Illness |
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| Literally 'mind-body' illness; any stress related physical illness such as hypertension and some headaches. |
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| the study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health. |
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