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Role Strain

Role Strain: The Stress of Multiple Roles

Role strain is when a person feels stressed or tense because they are having a hard time meeting the demands of a specific role they have, like being a parent, employee, or student. Understanding role strain helps us see the pressures people face in different social positions, especially in today’s fast-paced and complex world. Understanding

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Unconditioned Response

Unconditioned Response in Psychology: Pure Reactions

In psychology, the idea of an unconditioned response (UR) is very important, especially in classical conditioning. An unconditioned response is a natural reaction that happens automatically when something specific causes it, known as an unconditioned stimulus (US). Unlike conditioned responses, which we learn over time through experiences, unconditioned responses are automatic and we don’t have

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Stimulus Generalization

Stimulus Generalization: The Broad Spectrum of Responses

Stimulus generalization is an important idea in behavioral psychology that helps explain how living beings learn and adjust to their surroundings. It means that when something is trained to respond to a specific trigger, it might also react to things that are similar, but not exactly the same. This concept helps us understand how behaviors

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Hemispatial neglect

Hemispatial Neglect: When half the world goes unnoticed

Hemispatial Neglect, also called unilateral neglect or spatial neglect, is a brain condition where a person ignores one side of their surroundings. This often happens after a stroke or brain injury, usually affecting the right side of the brain and causing the person not to notice things on their left side. To understand this condition,

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Elaborative Rehearsal

Elaborative Rehearsal: The art of making learning stick

Memory is a key part of how we think, helping us keep and use information over time. To improve our memory, experts have found different techniques. One helpful method is called elaborative rehearsal. This technique is more than just repeating information; it involves making deeper, meaningful connections with what we’re learning. In this article, we’ll

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maintenance rehearsal

Maintenance Rehearsal: Repeat to Remember

Memory is a key part of how we think, helping us learn, find our way around, and communicate with others. One important way memory works is through maintenance rehearsal, which helps us keep information in our short-term memory. This article will explain what maintenance rehearsal is, how it works, why it’s important, and how we

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Visuospatial Sketchpad

Visuospatial Sketchpad: Where images become memories

The human brain is amazing and can do many different things that help us understand and move around in our world. One important part of this ability is called working memory, which holds and handles information for a short time. A key part of working memory is the visuospatial sketchpad. This article will explain what

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Central Executive Psychology

Central Executive Psychology: Control center of your mind

Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch introduced the working memory model in 1974, where the central executive plays a crucial role. This model changed how we think about short-term memory by showing it as an active system with several parts, instead of just one simple storage area. The central executive is very important because it manages

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Phonological Loop

Phonological Loop: Your mental voice recorder

The Phonological Loop is an important idea in cognitive psychology, which helps us understand how working memory works. It was first introduced by Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch in 1974 as part of their well-known model of working memory. The phonological loop is responsible for temporarily holding and handling sounds and spoken information. This article

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Reconstructive Memory

Reconstructive Memory: Piecing Together the Past

Memory isn’t like a perfect video of past events; instead, it’s a changing process that rebuilds experiences every time we remember them. This process is called reconstructive memory, and it shows how complex and sometimes unreliable our memories can be. In this article, we’ll look at what reconstructive memory is, how it works, and why

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Informational Influence

Informational Influence: Influenced by Knowledge

In social psychology, Informational Influence is really important for how people think and make choices. It means that what others tell us can change what we believe, think, and do. This happens all the time, like in everyday life and at work or school. Understanding informational influence helps us see how people learn new things,

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Normative Influence

Normative Influence: Blend In – Follow the Crowd

Normative influence is when we act in a certain way because we want to fit in with a group and be liked by others. It’s different from informational influence, which is about wanting to be correct and know the right answers. Normative influence is more about being accepted and not being left out. What is

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Role Conflict

Role Conflict: Navigating the Clash of Responsibilities

In today’s busy world, people often have to manage many different roles and responsibilities at the same time. This can lead to role conflict, where the demands of these roles clash, causing stress and making it hard to do them well. This article explains what role conflict is, why it happens, the different types, its

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Group Polarization

Group Polarization: When Groupthink Goes Extreme

Group polarization is when a group’s opinions or decisions become more extreme than what most people in the group initially thought. This can cause big changes in how people think and act, affecting areas like politics, business, and social interactions. To understand group polarization, we need to look at how it works, what causes it,

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Goal-Directed Behavior

Goal-Directed Behavior: The Blueprint to Success

 Goal-directed behavior is a basic idea in psychology that describes how people take actions to reach specific goals or results. This kind of behavior involves intentional actions that are carefully planned and carried out to achieve a desired goal. Understanding goal-directed behavior is important for personal growth and success at work because it includes the

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Outgroup Homogeneity

Outgroup Homogeneity: Beyond the Stereotype

Outgroup homogeneity is when we think people from other groups (that we’re not part of) are all the same, more than the people in our own group. This can change how we treat others, lead to stereotypes, and affect how different groups get along. In this article, we’ll explain what outgroup homogeneity is, why it

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Temporal Summation

Temporal Summation: The Rhythm of Neural Signals

Temporal summation is an important idea in neuroscience that explains how quickly repeated signals at one synapse can add up to create a stronger response in the next neuron. This process is crucial for how the brain combines sensory information, creates neural signals, and works overall. Understanding Temporal Summation Temporal summation is a process in

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Spatial Summation

Spatial Summation: The Art of Neuronal Teamwork

Spatial summation is an important idea in neuroscience. It means that when a neuron gets signals from different sources at the same time, these signals add up to create a stronger overall effect. This process helps the neuron to combine all the different inputs it receives, which affects how the neuron responds. This combined response

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Positive Transfer vs Negative Transfer

Positive Transfer vs Negative Transfer in Psychology

Transfer of learning is a big idea in psychology. It’s all about how stuff you’ve learned before affects new stuff you’re trying to learn or do. Think of it like this: when you learn something new, it can either help you or get in your way. That’s where positive and negative transfers come in. Positive

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Retrieval Cues

Retrieval Cues: Your brain’s treasure map

Retrieval Cues are crucial for helping us remember things. They act as triggers that help us bring back information stored in our brains. This article explores what retrieval cues are, the different types, why they are important, and how they work in the context of how our memory functions and how we think. What are

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