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  2. Specifier (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    In bipolar disorder, specifiers describe the nature of a current episode, such as the levels of anxiety, melancholia, and psychosis, and whether moods are congruent with behavior or incongruent. [3]

  3. Behavior modification - Wikipedia

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    Behavior modification is a treatment approach that uses respondent and operant conditioning to change behavior. Based on methodological behaviorism, [1] overt behavior is modified with (antecedent) stimulus control and consequences, including positive and negative reinforcement contingencies to increase desirable behavior, as well as positive and negative punishment, and extinction to reduce ...

  4. Glossary of psychiatry - Wikipedia

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    The word is derived from the Latin word verbum (also the source of verbiage), plus the verb gerĕre, to carry on or conduct, from which the Latin verb verbigerāre, to talk or chat, is derived. However, clinically the term verbigeration never achieved popularity and as such has virtually disappeared from psychiatric terminology.

  5. Psychology - Wikipedia

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    Ψ , the first letter of the Greek word psyche from which the term psychology is derived, is commonly associated with the field of psychology. In 1890, William James defined psychology as "the science of mental life, both of its phenomena and their conditions." [14] This definition enjoyed widespread currency for decades.

  6. Six-factor model of psychological well-being - Wikipedia

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    The "pleasure" orientation describes a path to happiness that is associated with adopting hedonistic life goals to satisfy only one's extrinsic needs. Engagement and meaning orientations describe a pursuit of happiness that integrates two positive psychology constructs "flow/engagement" and "eudaimonia/meaning". Both of the latter orientations ...

  7. Modifier - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical modifier, a word that modifies the meaning of another word or limits its meaning Compound modifier, two or more words that modify a noun; Dangling modifier, a word or phrase that modifies a clause in an ambiguous manner; Modifier key, a kind of key on a computer keyboard that changes the semantics of other keys (e.g. the shift key)

  8. Negative priming - Wikipedia

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    For example, the word "bank" has multiple meanings and can be referred in different contexts such as "bank is a place where money is deposited" or "banks of a river". [3] Matching tasks require subjects to respond "same" or "different" by matching the target letters or shapes with the explicitly specified goal while ignoring the distractor.

  9. Modality effect - Wikipedia

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    Typically, studies find these to be seven digits, six letters and five words. [3] In a study done by Drewnowski and Murdock, a visual list of English words was found to have an immediate recall of 4.82 words while an auditory representation of this same list led to a memory span of 5.36, a statistically significant variance. [4]