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The strengthening of a conditioned response.

The strengthening of a response with a social reward such as a nod of approval, a parent's love or attention.

Use of word stimulus to strengthen a response during learning.

Non-acceptance, negative attitudes, hostility or excessive criticism of the individual which may precipitate feelings of rejection.

Treatment to improve one's health condition by using techniques that can reduce PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS; or both.

The interrelationship of psychology and religion.

Specialized instruction for students deviating from the expected norm.

A type of procedural memory manifested as a change in the ability to identify an item as a result of a previous encounter with the item or stimuli.

Defense mechanisms involving approach and avoidance responses to threatening stimuli. The sensitizing process involves intellectualization in approac…

The active mental process of keeping out and ejecting, banishing from consciousness, ideas or impulses that are unacceptable to it.

Human behavior or decision related to REPRODUCTION.

Interaction between research personnel and research subjects.

A specialized residential treatment program for behavior disorders including substance abuse. It may include therapeutically planned group living and…

The human ability to adapt in the face of tragedy, trauma, adversity, hardship, and ongoing significant life stressors.

A feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements and regard for the feelings, wishes, or…

The persistence to perform a learned behavior (facts or experiences) after an interval has elapsed in which there has been no performance or practice…

Any situation where an animal or human is trained to respond differentially to two stimuli (e.g., approach and avoidance) under reward and punishment…

An object or a situation that can serve to reinforce a response, to satisfy a motive, or to afford pleasure.

Reduction of high-risk choices and adoption of low-risk quantity and frequency alternatives.

Undertaking a task involving a challenge for achievement or a desirable goal in which there is a lack of certainty or a fear of failure. It may also …

Extreme anger generated from a traffic incident or accident that leads to an assault with a motor vehicle or other dangerous weapon by the operator o…

Reciprocal action of two vertebrate photoreceptor cells (RODS AND CONES). Rod-cone interaction occurs during MESOPIC VISION in which both rods and co…

The expected and characteristic pattern of behavior exhibited by an individual as a member of a particular social group.

A state of tension or distress that occurs when fulfilling roles of one status making it difficult to fulfill the roles of another.

The adopting or performing the role of another significant individual in order to gain insight into the behavior of that person.

A projective test used to evaluate a broad range of personality variables including pathology of thought and perception. The subject's responses to i…

Obsessive thinking about an idea, situation, or choice.

Feeling or showing sorrow; the sense of being unhappy. It is related to DEPRESSION but is not synonymous.

Sexual behavior that prevents or reduces the spread of SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES or PREGNANCY.

Full gratification of a need or desire followed by a state of relative insensitivity to that particular need or desire.