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Psychology Vocabulary - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 849 times
- The average score is 12 of 30
Answer Stats
| Hint | First Letter | Answer | % Correct |
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| An emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts, and physical changes like increased blood pressure. | A | Anxiety | 92%
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| In psychoanalytic theory, that portion of the human personality which is experienced as the “self” or “I” and is in contact with the external world through perception. | E | Ego | 71%
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| A repetitive behavior or mental act that a person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession. | C | Compulsion | 65%
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| An overwhelming and debilitating fear of an object, place, situation, feeling or animal. | P | Phobia | 61%
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| In psychoanalytic theory, the primitive and instinctive component of personality. | I | Id | 59%
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| A repeated thought, urge, or mental image that is intrusive, unwanted, and that may cause anxiety. | O | Obsession | 52%
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| A period of extreme anxiety and physical symptoms such as heart palpitations, shakiness, dizziness and racing thoughts. | P | Panic attack | 52%
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| Any agent, event, or situation — internal or external — that elicits a response. | S | Stimulus | 49%
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| A conscious mental reaction subjectively experienced as a strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body. | E | Emotion | 48%
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| A range of mental processes relating to the acquisition, storage, manipulation, and retrieval of information. | C | Cognition | 47%
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| A mental process where a person disconnects from their thoughts, feelings, memories or sense of identity. | D | Dissociation | 47%
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| In psychoanalytic theory, the ethical component of the personality that provides the moral standards by which the “self” operates. | S | Superego | 45%
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| A false perception of objects or events involving one’s senses. | H | Hallucination | 44%
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| The vast sum of operations of the mind that take place below the level of conscious awareness. | U | Unconscious | 44%
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| In psychoanalytic theory, psychic drive or energy, usually conceived as sexual in nature, but sometimes conceived as including other forms of desire. | L | Libido | 40%
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| A defense mechanism by which an individual unconsciously attributes their behaviors, emotions, impulses, undesirable characteristics, and thoughts to others. | P | Projection | 40%
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| A defense mechanism by which unpleasant emotions, impulses, memories, and thoughts are pushed out of conscious awareness. | R | Repression | 37%
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| A person's internal and individual sense and experience of gender. | G | Gender identity | 33%
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| The loss of at least some contact with reality, possibly involving hallucinations, delusions and/or disorientation. | P | Psychosis | 32%
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| The process of rewarding or reinforcing desirable behavior in order to increase the likelihood that the behavior will be repeated in the future. | P | Positive reinforcement | 28%
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| The ability to both manage one’s own emotions and understand the emotions of people around one. | E | Emotional intelligence | 25%
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| Anything, internal or external, that applies psychological pressure on an individual. | S | Stressor | 25%
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| The gradual weakening of a conditioned response that results in the behavior decreasing or disappearing. | E | Extinction | 24%
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| A defense mechanism whereby one attempts to justify behaviors, thoughts or feelings with a logical (but false) explanation. | R | Rationalization | 24%
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| A decrease in response to a stimulus after repeated presentations. | H | Habituation | 23%
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| Orientation toward the internal private world of one’s self and one’s inner thoughts and feelings, rather than toward the outer world of people and things. | I | Introversion | 21%
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| The psychoanalytic technique of allowing a patient to discuss, without input or direction, thoughts, dreams, memories, or words, regardless of coherency, in order to analyze current issues. | F | Free association | 17%
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| A logical approach whereby one uses general observations to make specific conclusions. | D | Deductive reasoning | 13%
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| A type of cognitive bias in which our overall impression of a person influences how we feel and think about their character. | H | Halo effect | 12%
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| A tendency to fill in gaps in our memory with information we learned after the event, and to believe the “filler” represents actual memories. | R | Reconstruction | 4%
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