Psychology

includes- cognition, schemas, behavioural, priming and social psychology keywords

Familial Aggregation

Familial Aggregation

depression runs in the family

Heuristics

Thinking techniques that allow the human brain to make decisions daily (mental shortcuts)

Maladaptive

Learned behaviour as a result of not adjusting properly in a situation

Emotional blunting

Flattened emotion as a result of antidepressant medication

Cognition

mental processes and activities related to getting and understanding knowledge with experience, thoughts and senses

Schemas

knowledge structure that enables us to store and separate knowledge in our minds

Assimilation

indo added into pre-existing schemas

Accommodation

changing pre-existing schemas or making new schemas

Classic conditioning

learning through association

Extinction

Weakening conditioned response due to presentation of stimulus without unconditioned stimulus

Generalisation

When a subject responds in the same way to stimuli similar to its original conditioned stimulus

Priming

Exposing individuals to information to directly impact their thoughts or behaviour, even unconsciously

Cognitive attentive bias

When we overestimate an individuals positive quality

Altruism

Behaviour that helps others without directly benefiting ourselves

Bystander effect

tendacy to be less likely to help when others are present