16 March 2016

Psychology (Part-1)

  • Active listening -  A feature of client-centered therapy that involves empathetic listening, by which the therapist echoes, restates, and clarifies what the client says.
  • Cognition - Thinking. It involves mental activities such as understanding, problem solving, decision making, and creativity.
  • Cognitive dissonance - An unpleasant state of tension that arises when a person has related cognitions that conflict with one another.
  • Deductive reasoning - The process by which a particular conclusion is drawn from a set of general premises or statements.
  • Moral reasoning - The reasons and processes that cause people to think the way they do about right and wrong.
  • Overlearning - Continuing to practice material even after it is learned in order to increase retention.
  • Relearning - A method for measuring forgetting and retention, which involves assessing the amount of time it takes to memorize information a second time.
  • Representativeness heuristic - A rule-of-thumb strategy that estimates the probability of an event based on how typical that event is.

  • Self-actualization - The need to realize one’s full potential. According to Maslow, this is human beings’ highest need, which arises after the satisfaction of more basic needs.
  • Self-concept - According to Rogers, the most important feature of personality. The self-concept includes all the thoughts, feelings, and beliefs people have about themselves.

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