Depression

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DEVALUATION

The defence mechanism that denies the importance of someone or something.

DIRECT COPING

The active and focused confrontation and management of a tressful situation.

DISTRESS

A negative emotional state with no identifiable quality.

DYSPHORIA

Mood characterised by sadness.

EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCE

Where you depend on another for support, comfort and nurture.

EMOTION-FOCUSED COPING

Coping strategy focusing on regulating negative emotional reactions to a stressor. See secondary coping. Compare problem focused coping.

ERROR OF EXPECTATION

The error that arises from a preconceived idea.

EXPERIENCE

1. The conscious event. 2. Present content of consciousness. 3. An event resulting in earning.

EXTEROCEPTIVE STIMULUS

Stimulus coming from the external world. Compare interoceptive stimulus.

LONELINESS

a sometimes long lasting feeling of having no alternative to turn to in times of distress and depression. Generally classed

MANUAL METHOD, MANUALIZED THERAPY

is a method used during experiments which maintains rigid conditions and settings in the study to ensure consistency across the

MEDIATED GENERALIZATION

is when a conditioned response is actioned by a stimuli which is entirely different from but still associated with the

MENTAL PRACTICE

is the use of imagery with respect to the mastery of a skill.

MIXED EMOTIONS

is the process of experiencing more than one emotion at a time as a result of an event. For example,

MOURNING

is the process which an individual will go through after losing something or someone of great importance in their lives.

NEGATIVE AFFECT

is an internal feeling or emotion which is typically experienced after one has failed to complete a task or goal,

NONSHARED ENVIRONMENT

with regard to behavior genetic analyses, those facets of a surrounding climate which peoples living together don't share and which

OCCASION SETTER

with regard to Pavlovian conditioning, a stimulant which is differentially coupled with a stimulant-stimulant contingency.

ORGANIZATIONAL HUMANISM

an approach to bettering organizational efficacy based upon the presumption that efficacy is improved if organizational partakers can reach a

PARAMETER

1. a numerical constant which categorizes a populace with respect to some trait, for instance, the locale of its central