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Accommodation
Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information
Coping
Reducing stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods
Insight
A sudden realization of the solution to a problem
Narcissism
Excessive self love and self absorption
Phobia
A disorder marked by a fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation.
Conflict
Conflict a perceived incompatibility of action, goals, or ideas.
barbiturates
drugs that depress the central nervous system activity
Opiates
Opium and its derivatives, such as morphine and heroin.
prejudice
an unfair and usually negative attitude toward a group and its members.
Type B Personality
Type B Personality Term for Easy going, relaxed people
Placebo Effect
results based on expectations alone
Trait
Trait a characteristic pattern of behavior or a tendency to feel and act in a certain way
Stimulants
drugs that excite neural activity and speed up bodily function.
Stress
Stress the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events
Conformity
adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Heredity
the genetic transfer of characteristics from parents to offspring
Motivation
a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior
SQ3R
A study method incorporating five steps. Survey, Question, Read, Retrieve, Review
critical thinking
thinking that does not blindly accept arguments or conclusions
Self Control
the ability to control impulses and delay short term gratification for greater long term rewards
Type A personality
Type A personality Term for competitive, hard driven, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger prone people.
Psychology
The Science of behavior and mental processes
placebo effect
results based on exceptions alone
Conflict
a perceived incompatibility of action, goals, or ideas.
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