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  2. Inhibitory control - Wikipedia

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    Inhibitory control, also known as response inhibition, is a cognitive process – and, more specifically, an executive function – that permits an individual to inhibit their impulses and natural, habitual, or dominant behavioral responses to stimuli (a.k.a. prepotent responses) in order to select a more appropriate behavior that is consistent with completing their goals.

  3. Cognitive inhibition - Wikipedia

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    Behavioral control is an important application of cognitive inhibition in behavioral psychology, as is emotional control. Depression is an example of cognitive inhibition failure in emotion control. Correctly functioning cognitive inhibition would result in reduced selective attention to negative stimuli and retention of negative thoughts.

  4. List of psychological effects - Wikipedia

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    A list of 'effects' that have been noticed in the field of psychology. [clarification needed] Ambiguity effect;

  5. Control (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, control is a person's ability or perception of their ability to affect themselves, others, their conditions, their environment or some other circumstance. Control over oneself or others can extend to the regulation of emotions , thoughts , actions , impulses , memory , attention or experiences .

  6. Liminality - Wikipedia

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    In other words, "there are degrees of liminality, and…the degree depends on the extent to which the liminal experience can be weighed against persisting structures." [ 6 ] When the spatial and temporal are both affected, the intensity of the liminal experience increases and so-called "pure liminality" is approached.

  7. Glossary of psychiatry - Wikipedia

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    Metonymy is a speech disturbance in which patients, commonly with schizophrenia, use inappropriate words or expressions that are related to the proper ones. Examples include: consume a menu, instead of a meal; lose the piece of string of the conversation, not the thread of the conversation. See also § word approximation. [26] [27]

  8. Agency (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    The abductive result is agency, the distinctive human capacity to illuminate meaning in the embodiment of semiosis.” [35] By this one can understand that in many ways an agent’s ability to communicate is fundamental to their agentive nature, and intentionality is a key component of what a communicative agent communicates. Additionally, an ...

  9. Perceived control - Wikipedia

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    Avoiding – Primary-Negative Control; Avoiding, according to Bryant, is defined as “the perceived ability to avoid negative outcomes”. It is dependent on (1) the degree of personal control over bad things, (2) the frequency with which bad things occur, and (3) the likelihood of bad things occurring. Coping – Secondary-Negative Control