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  2. Mental model - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, the term mental models is sometimes used to refer to mental representations or mental simulation generally. The concepts of schema and conceptual models are cognitively adjacent. Elsewhere, it is used to refer to the "mental model" theory of reasoning developed by Philip Johnson-Laird and Ruth M. J. Byrne .

  3. Big Five personality traits - Wikipedia

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    The Pathoplasty Model: This model proposes that premorbid personality traits impact the expression, course, severity, and/or treatment response of a mental disorder. [ 194 ] [ 200 ] [ 81 ] An example of this relationship would be a heightened likelihood of committing suicide in a depressed individual who also has low levels of constraint.

  4. Modeling (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    For children assigned the non-aggressive condition, the role model ignored the doll. For children assigned the aggressive condition, the role model spent the majority of the time physically aggressing the doll and shouting at it. After the role model left the room, the children were allowed to interact with similar toys individually.

  5. Cognitive model - Wikipedia

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    A cognitive model is a representation of one or more cognitive processes in humans or other animals for the purposes of comprehension and prediction. There are many types of cognitive models, and they can range from box-and-arrow diagrams to a set of equations to software programs that interact with the same tools that humans use to complete tasks (e.g., computer mouse and keyboard).

  6. Psi-theory - Wikipedia

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    To model emotion, we need a cognitive system that can be modulated to adapt its use of processing resources and behavior tendencies. In the Psi-theory, emotions are interpreted as a configurational setting of the cognitive modulators along with the pleasure/distress dimension and the assessment of the cognitive urges.

  7. Symbolic modeling - Wikipedia

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    The practice of symbolic modeling is built upon a foundation of two complementary theories: the metaphors by which we live, [2] and the models by which we create. It regards the individual as a self-organizing system that encodes much of the meaning of feelings, thoughts, beliefs, experiences etc. in the embodied mind as metaphors. [3]

  8. Trait theory - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, trait theory (also called dispositional theory) is an approach to the study of human personality.Trait theorists are primarily interested in the measurement of traits, which can be defined as habitual patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion. [1]

  9. Models of abnormality - Wikipedia

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    The psychodynamic model is the fourth psychological model of abnormality and is based on the work of Sigmund Freud. It is based on the principles that psychological illnesses come about from repressed emotions and thoughts from experiences in the past (usually childhood), and as a result of this repression , alternative behaviour replaces what ...