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  2. Compensation (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, compensation is a strategy whereby one covers up, consciously or unconsciously, weaknesses, frustrations, desires, or feelings of inadequacy or incompetence in one life area through the gratification or (drive towards) excellence in another area. Compensation can cover up either real or imagined deficiencies and personal or ...

  3. Cognitive categorization - Wikipedia

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    Categorization is a type of cognition involving conceptual differentiation between characteristics of conscious experience, such as objects, events, or ideas.It involves the abstraction and differentiation of aspects of experience by sorting and distinguishing between groupings, through classification or typification [1] [2] on the basis of traits, features, similarities or other criteria that ...

  4. Social compensation - Wikipedia

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    The social compensation hypothesis has been applied to research in online dating. [4] In a study by Poley and Luo, the social compensation hypothesis, stating that people high in dating or social anxiety and low in social competence, tend to use online dating to compensate for social deficits, was not supported. Participants high in dating or ...

  5. Psychological typologies - Wikipedia

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    An example of trait psychology development (stages): Singling out the types of love as psychology of traits. In the Antique time, the typology of the kinds of love was very popular. These kinds of love comprised: Eros – a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love

  6. Compensation - Wikipedia

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    Financial compensation; Compensation (chess), various advantages a player has in exchange for a disadvantage; Compensation, by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Compensation, a 1999 film; Compensation (psychology) Biological compensation, the characteristic pattern of bending of the plant or mushroom stem after turning from the normal vertical position

  7. Folk biology - Wikipedia

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    Folk biology (or folkbiology) is the cognitive study of how people classify and reason about the organic world. Humans everywhere classify animals and plants into obvious species -like groups. The relationship between a folk taxonomy and a scientific classification can assist in understanding how evolutionary theory deals with the apparent ...

  8. Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology - Wikipedia

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    The consortium is developing the HiTOP model, a classification system, or taxonomy, of mental disorders, or psychopathology, aiming to prioritize scientific results over convention and clinical opinion. The motives for proposing this classification were to aid clinical practice and mental health research.

  9. Semantic feature-comparison model - Wikipedia

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    The cognitive approach consists of two concepts: information processing depends on internal representations, and that mental representations undergo transformations.For the first concept, we could describe an object in a number of ways, with drawings, equations, or verbal descriptions, but it is up to the recipient to have a background understanding of the context to which the object is being ...