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You use this to consider things like what another person is thinking or feeling

What is Social Cognition?

100

The sounds made by the English letters R and L are examples of these; examples that those fluent only in Japanese may not be able to tell apart.

What are Phonemes?
100

When this becomes simpler to do, people in that culture engage in more violent crimes.

What is accessing weapons?

100

These are treatments for Mental Disorders that alter the mind, not the body. 

What are Psychological Treatments?

100

This simple label refers to the true mental capacity of a person. Now if only finding it were just as simple!

What is General Intelligence?

200

If a person in this kind of group does something that could also be described as this, it is quite likely someone will remember it a bit TOO well

What is rare?

200

While "anti" may not be a word on it's own, it's consistent meaning makes it one of these. If it wasn't, we wouldn't have "antifreeze", "anti-intruder" systems, or "antibodies"

What is a Morpheme?

200

While this aspect determines a lot about a person, it only explains roughly 40% of someone's personality.

What are their genetics?

200

This treatment centers around changing the way someone thinks. Replacing destructive, maladaptive thoughts with healthier, or maybe more rational, alternatives.

What is Cognitive Therapy?

200

This act can be conscious or unconscious, reinforces itself with false information, and has almost no power to help us make good decisions. Beyond all of that, it's just plain mean.

What is Stereotyping?

300

Despite the old phrase "birds of a feather flock together", when it comes to finding a partner, this factor can be a lot more important that similarity. Helps explain me and my wife...

What is compatibility?

300

Once a baby has reached this stage, they've started combining words to make coherent, if grammatically improper, "sentences". Plus, they're already practicing for character limits online!

What is Telegraphic Speech?

300

This particular trait describes someone as having a lot of difficulty adjusting to changes, or remaining emotionally stable.

What is Neuroticism?

300

This allows multiple people, usually that did not know each other, to be treated at the same time by one professional.

What is Group Therapy?

300
If I used this word to describe someone's actions, it would imply that their very nature as a person led to their behavior.

What is Dispositional?

400

When someone makes an elaborate plot to kill their step-brother's uncle's great grandmother's ex-husband because it will mean their convoluted will elects them to receive a 5 million dollar inheritance, then that person has shown this kind of behavior.

What is Proactive Aggression?

400

This may sound cutesy when we do it with pets or babies, but is actually a key way to help them learn a language. A less-cute version can even help language-learning students, but it will not make someone magically understand a language they don't speak.

What is Infant Directed Speech? (IDS)

400

If a person is allowed to act on their own specific thoughts or feelings about a situation, instead of following specific rules, they are in one of these.

What is a Weak Situation?

400

This "natural" remedy for Seasonal Affective Disorder basically just involves standing near a very bright light for a while. Wonder how long it took for us to think of that one...

What is Photo Therapy?

400

This refers specifically to the symptoms a person is experiencing; not what a doctor tells them.

What is a Disorder?

500

If I notice that someone else has the same backpack as me, the fact we have this in common may cause us (and anyone else with that bag) to become one of these. Even though it's just a practical bag.

What is a Group?

500

Make rule without no system languages this sense.

Sorry, I meant "Without this rule system, languages make no sense."

What is Syntax?

500

If someone were to let you pick where both of you would go to hang out for the 7th week in a row,m you might be dealing with a ;person very high ion this pleasant-sounding personality trait.

What is Agreeableness?

500

This class of medications ONLY lifts mood. It does nothing to suppress it.

What are Anti-Depressants?

500

If someone thinks they can't possibly influence a particular situation, then they would have an External one of these at the time.

What is a Locus of Control?

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