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These reinforces are innate and often satisfy biological needs like food, water, sex, and even artificial sweeteners with no food value

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Primary reinforcers

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_____ is a heightened awareness of the present moment, which can be applied to events in one’s environment and events in one’s own mind.

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Mindfulness

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This is the field of psychology that uses psychological principles to encourage healthy lifestyles and to minimize the impact of stress.

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Health Psychology

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Health psychology examines how people become who they are, from conception to death, concentrating on biological and environmental factors

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False

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The likeliness over others to engage in social activities, experience gratitude, show strong sense of meaning in life and be more forgiving.

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Extraversion

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These are the perceived states of tension that occur when our bodies are deficient in some need and creating an urge to relieve the tension.

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psychology is the field of psychology that uses psychological principles to encourage healthy lifestyles and to minimize the impact of stress

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This is the harsh internal judge of our behavior. It is reflected in what we often call conscience and evaluates the morality of our behavior.

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is a form of therapy in which a trained professional uses methods based on psychological theories to help a person with psychological problems.

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This is Jung’s name for the impersonal, deepest layer of the unconscious mind, shared by all human beings because of their common ancestral past

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This refers to the person’s observable characteristics which show the contributions of both nature (genetic heritage) and nurture (environment).

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_________ is a pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts and emotions, and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adapts to the world.

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This pertains to the memory of emotionally significant events that people often recall with more accuracy and vivid imagery than everyday events.

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_________ is a method of measuring personality characteristics that directly asks people whether specific items describe their personality traits.

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In Erik Erikson's Stages of Personality Development, at what age do we acquire our sense of own identity and grow confused about our role in life?

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It refers to the retention of information about the where, when, and what of life’s happenings – that is how individuals remember life’s episodes.

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It is like a fence that surrounds the entire neuron, giving it shape and keeping the cell’s internal fluid inside; it is said to be semi-permeable.

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This refers to the tendency of members of groups to work less hard when group performance is measured than when individual performance is measured.

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This stage of human development is when the young child's thought is egocentric or selfcentered, as they can only see things from their perspective

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