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  2. Glossary of psychiatry - Wikipedia

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    Vorbeigehen (German: [foːɐ̯ˈbaɪ̯ˌɡeːən] ⓘ, giving approximate answers) was the original term used by Ganser but Vorbeireden (talking past the point) is the term generally in use (Goldin 1955). This behavior is also seen in people trying to feign psychiatric disorders (hence its association with prisoners).

  3. Cognitive Abilities Test - Wikipedia

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    The test purports to assess students' acquired reasoning abilities while also predicting achievement scores when administered with the co-normed Iowa Tests. The test was originally published in 1954 as the Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Test , after the psychologists who authored the first version of it, Irving Lorge and Robert L. Thorndike . [ 1 ]

  4. Psychology - Wikipedia

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    Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. [1] [2] Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both conscious and unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feelings, and motives. Psychology is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between the natural and social ...

  5. Philippine English vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Number two [16] — mistress (Original meaning: the number after 1) One-fourth – a small sheet of pad paper used for writing the answers to school quizzes (Original meaning: a quarter) Open [68] — To turn on (an appliance, for example). Shared with Malaysian English. (Original meaning: to make something accessible or allow for passage by ...

  6. Priming (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Priming is a concept in psychology to describe how exposure to one stimulus may influence a response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance or intention. [1] [2] [3] The priming effect is the positive or negative effect of a rapidly presented stimulus (priming stimulus) on the processing of a second stimulus (target stimulus) that appears shortly after.

  7. Tabula rasa - Wikipedia

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    A synthetic (programming) language parser (LR(1), LALR(1) or SLR(1), for example) could be considered a special case of a tabula rasa, as it is designed to accept any of a possibly infinite set of source language programs, within a single programming language, and to output either a good parse of the program, or a good machine language ...

  8. Cerebral palsy - Wikipedia

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    Cerebral palsy occurs in about 2.1 per 1000 live births. [2] In those born at term rates are lower at 1 per 1000 live births. [72] Within a population it may occur more often in poorer people. [200] The rate is higher in males than in females; in Europe it is 1.3 times more common in males. [201]

  9. Anton Webern - Wikipedia

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    Anton Webern [a] (German: [ˈantoːn ˈveːbɐn] ⓘ; 3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist.His music was among the most radical of its milieu in its concision and use of then novel atonal and twelve-tone techniques.