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| personality trait marked by an inflated sense of importance, a need for attention and admiration, a sense of entitlement, and a tendency to exploit others. |
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| any overt response or activity by an organism |
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| branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psycholgical problems and disorders |
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| the science that studies behavior and the physiological and mental processes that underlie it, and it is the profession that applies the accumulated knowledge of this science to practical problems. |
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| The pyschological processes through which people manage or cope with the demands and challenges of everyday life. |
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| the premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation |
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| a condition or event that an experimenter varies in order to see its impact on another variable |
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| the variable that is thought to be affected by the manipulations of the independent variable. |
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| consists of the subjects who recieve some special treatment in regard to the independent variable |
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| consists of similar subjects who don't recieve the special treatment given to the experimental group |
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when two variables are related to each other
(researchers cannot control the variables under study) |
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| a researcher engages in careful observation of behavior without intervening directly with the subjects |
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| an indepth investigation of an individual subject |
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| structured questionnaires designed to solicit information about specific aspects of participants' behavior |
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| individuals' personal assessments of their overall happiness or life satisfaction |
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| efforts to predict one's emotional reactions to future events |
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| occurs when the mental scale that people use to judge the pleasantness-unpleasantness of their experiences shifts so that their neutral point, or baseline for comparision, is changed |
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| continued rehearsal of material after you have first appeared to master it |
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| strategies for enhancing memory |
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