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  2. Control by deprivation - Wikipedia

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    Control deprivation is the act of not giving an individual their desires, wants and needs in a deliberate way to control that individual. [1] It is often achieved through acts such as lacking affection, acting indifferent and detached, failing to respond, emotional distance, deliberately withholding sex, shifting blame to the individual, and by other techniques.

  3. Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia

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    Deprivation is what causes deficiency, so when one has unmet needs, this motivates them to fulfill what they are being denied. [ 22 ] The human brain is a complex system and has parallel processes running at the same time, thus many different motivations from various levels of Maslow's hierarchy can occur at the same time.

  4. Social deprivation - Wikipedia

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    Social deprivation is the reduction or prevention of culturally normal interaction between an individual and the rest of society. This social deprivation is included in a broad network of correlated factors that contribute to social exclusion; these factors include mental illness, poverty, poor education, and low socioeconomic status, norms and values.

  5. Theories of poverty - Wikipedia

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    All cultural values considered together create "value systems". These systems heavily influence the way decisions are made as well as the reactions and outcomes of said decisions. In the same book, Stace Lindsay's chapter claims the decisions individuals make are a result of mental models. These mental models influence all aspects of human action.

  6. Subjective well-being - Wikipedia

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    Personal wellbeing in the UK 2012–13. Subjective well-being (SWB) is a self-reported measure of well-being, typically obtained by questionnaire. [1] [2]Ed Diener developed a tripartite model of SWB in 1984, which describes how people experience the quality of their lives and includes both emotional reactions and cognitive judgments. [3]

  7. Causes of mental disorders - Wikipedia

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    Risk factors for mental illness include psychological trauma, adverse childhood experiences, genetic predisposition, and personality traits. [7] [8] Correlations between mental disorders and substance use are also found to have a two way relationship, in that substance use can lead to the development of mental disorders and having mental disorders can lead to substance use/abuse.

  8. Mand (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Mand is a term that B.F. Skinner used to describe a verbal operant in which the response is reinforced by a characteristic consequence and is therefore under the functional control of relevant conditions of deprivation or aversive stimulation. One cannot determine, based on form alone, whether a response is a mand; it is necessary to know the ...

  9. Human behavior - Wikipedia

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    Human behavior is studied by the social sciences, which include psychology, sociology, ethology, and their various branches and schools of thought. [1] There are many different facets of human behavior, and no one definition or field study encompasses it in its entirety. [2]