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In people who are both intellectually gifted and have a learning disability, the state of hyperfocus and flow can be confounded with perseveration. [9] Apart from their direct symptoms, people with obsessive–compulsive disorder can have specific problems with set shifting and inhibition of prepotent responses. [13]
The perseverative cognition hypothesis [2] holds that stressful events begin to affect people's health when they think about them repetitively or continuously (that is, 'perseverate cognitively'). Stressful events and the direct physiological responses to them are often too short in duration to cause bodily harm.
A thought disorder (TD) is a disturbance in cognition which affects language, thought and communication. [1] [2] Psychiatric and psychological glossaries in 2015 and 2017 identified thought disorders as encompassing poverty of ideas, neologisms, paralogia (a reasoning disorder characterized by expression of illogical or delusional thoughts), word salad, and delusions—all disturbances of ...
I feel like no one does anymore, especially if you’re on TikTok,” Santulli said in a phone interview “That (silent reviews) caught my attention, as well as a lot of others, because it’s so ...
The psychology of collecting is an area of study that seeks to understand the motivating factors explaining why people devote time, money, and energy making and maintaining collections. There exist a variety of theories for why collecting behavior occurs, including consumerism, materialism, neurobiology and psychoanalytic theory.
Candy canes have a long history that some people say started in Germany back in 1670 when a choirmaster at the Cologne Cathedral handed out sugar sticks to a group of youthful choirboys who had a ...
Chappell Roan isn't endorsing a candidate for president. While this seems hardly newsworthy, the internet virtually erupted in horror that the 26-year-old musician, who shot to fame earlier this ...
If people have too much external justification for their actions, cognitive dissonance does not occur, and thus, attitude change is unlikely to occur. On the other hand, when people cannot find external justification for their behavior, they must attempt to find internal justification—they reduce dissonance by changing their attitudes or behaviors.