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  • SCHIZOPHRENIC AND OTHER PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS

    How is the term psychotic defined?

    The narrowest definition of psychotic based on symptoms is restricted to delusions or prominent hallucinations occuring in the absence of insight into their pathological nature, Broader, the definition includes ...

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  • Feeding And Eating Disorders

    8 years, 1 month ago
    FEEDING AND EATING DISORDERS OF INFANCY OR EARLY CHILDHOOD

    Included here are:

    1. Pica. The essential diagnostic feature of this disorder is the persistent eating of nonnutritive substances for a period of at least one month. Infants and younger children ...

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  • SLEEP DISORDERS
    What are sleep disorders?

    This is an umbrella term for any significant departure from the normal sleep-walking cycle.

    Short sleepers lack difficulty falling asleep and without symptoms such as fatigue, intermittent wakefulness, concentration problems or irritability. Jet lag ...

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  • How does a warm and nurturant home influence' social and personality development?

    Studies have shown that early social attachment form the basis of close interpersonal relations in adulthood (Bowlby, 1973). Poor mothering, repeated separations of parents from child, marriage break-ups ...

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  • How do psychologists measure behavior and experience?

    Whatever method pyschologists use they find it necessary to make statements about amounts or quantities and thus can be measured. Measurement relates to the identification of both the qualitative and quantitative. A set ...

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  • How is research used in Psychology?

    Research in psychology as in all fields of science, has two focuses of interest: basic research and applied research.

    Basic research is concerned with the quest for knowledge, regardless of whether it has immediate ...

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  • The Nature Of Psychology

    8 years, 1 month ago
    What is Psychology?

    Psychology is derived from two Greek words: psyche and logos, meaning soul and study. Psychology is the science of behavior. As a science, it gathers knowledge by carefully observing and measuring events and by experimenting. It is ...

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  • Psychologists organize their findings concerning the various aspects of the behavior of living organisms. Then they classify the results of their studies into certain specific fields.

    1. Abnormal psychology is the study of maladjustment's among mental, social-emotional deviates.

    2. Adolescent ...

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  • Ultimate power is the ability to produce the results you desire most and create value for others in the process. Power is the ability to change your life, to shape your perceptions, to make things work for you and not ...

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  • One way to get yourself into a state that supports your achieving any outcome is to act "as if" you were already there. Acting "as if" is most effective when you put your physiology in the state you'd be in ...

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