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• 17:19, 4 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+111)‎ . . N Credential society ‎ (Created page with "A credential society is one in which employers use diplomas and degrees to determine who is eligible for a job.") (current)
• 13:45, 26 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+216)‎ . . N Isoleucine ‎ (Created page with "Isoleucine is an α-amino acid with the chemical formula HO2CCH(NH2)CH(CH3)CH2CH3. It is an essential amino acid, which means that humans cannot synthesize it, so it must be inge...") (current)
• 21:16, 18 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+430)‎ . . N Derogatory ‎ (Created page with "Expressing a low or poor opinion of someone or something or someone. *The radio talk-show host tried to discredit the politician by making derogatory remarks about his appearan...") (current)
• 14:09, 18 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+140)‎ . . N Cablinasian ‎ (Created page with ""Cablinasian" is a term Tiger Woods invented to recognize his racial heritage as being a combination of Caucasian, Black, Indian, and Asian.") (current)
• 14:05, 18 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+115)‎ . . N Feminism ‎ (Created page with "Feminism is a philosophy that maintains that women and men should be equal politically, economically, and socially.") (current)
• 14:34, 10 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+279)‎ . . N McDonaldization ‎ (Created page with "The term "McDonaldization" refers to the standardization of everyday life that results in the robot-like assembly of food, one-stop shopping, familiar franchises, packaged vacati...") (current)
• 17:17, 9 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+54)‎ . . N Sanction ‎ (Created page with "A threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.<br>") (current)
• 19:27, 8 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+149)‎ . . N Small world phenomenon ‎ (Created page with "The small world phenomenon refers to the closeness that all members of a society share, even one as extensive as the population of the United States.")
• 19:25, 8 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+139)‎ . . Groupthink ‎ (current)
• 17:51, 8 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+202)‎ . . N Status inconsistency ‎ (Created page with "Status inconsistency is a contradiction or mismatch between social statuses. Examples would be a 14-year-old girl going to college, or a 40-year-old married woman dating a 19-yea...") (current)
• 17:50, 8 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+201)‎ . . N Proletariat ‎ (Created page with "Term used to identify a lower social class, usually the working class; a member of such a class is proletarian. Originally it was identified as those people who had no wealth oth...") (current)
• 16:36, 6 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+600)‎ . . N American Psychological Association ‎ (Created page with "The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States. It is the world's largest association ...") (current)
• 15:54, 6 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+492)‎ . . N Structuralism ‎ (Created page with "Structuralism is a theoretical paradigm that emphasizes that elements of culture must be understood in terms of their relationship to a larger, overarching system or "structure."...")
• 15:53, 6 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+472)‎ . . N Engineering psychologist ‎ (Created page with "Engineering psychology is the science of human behaviour and capability, applied to the design and operation of systems and technology. As an applied field of psychology and an i...") (current)
• 21:02, 5 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+71)‎ . . N Gestalt ‎ (Created page with "Gestalt is the German word for "perceptual pattern" or "configuration."") (current)
• 17:13, 5 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+99)‎ . . N Narcolepsy ‎ (Created page with "Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder that causes excessive sleepiness and frequent daytime sleep attacks.")
• 17:12, 5 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+1,319)‎ . . N Sleep apnea ‎ (Created page with "Sleep apnoea is a sleep disorder characterized by abnormal pauses in breathing or instances of abnormally low breathing, during sleep. Each pause in breathing, called an apnea, c...")
• 17:12, 5 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+172)‎ . . N Insomnia ‎ (Created page with "Insomnia is trouble falling asleep or staying asleep through the night. Episodes may come and go (episodic), last up to 3 weeks (short-term), or be long-lasting (chronic).")
• 16:46, 5 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+77)‎ . . N Privy ‎ (Created page with "A toilet located in a small shed outside a house or other building; outhouse.") (current)
• 16:45, 5 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+781)‎ . . N Gamma-aminobutyric acid ‎ (Created page with "γ-Aminobutyric acid is the chief inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system. It plays a role in regulating neuronal excitability throughout the nervous ...") (current)
• 16:45, 5 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+792)‎ . . N Benzodiazepine ‎ (Created page with "A benzodiazepine is a psychoactive drug whose core chemical structure is the fusion of a benzene ring and a diazepine ring. Benzodiazepines enhance the effect of the neurotr...")
• 16:44, 5 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+670)‎ . . N Depressant ‎ (Created page with "Depressants are drugs that inhibit the function of the central nervous system (CNS) and are among the most widely used drugs in the world. These drugs operate by affecting neuron...") (current)
• 14:04, 5 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+79)‎ . . N Cognition ‎ (Created page with "Cognition refers to the mental processes involved in thinking and intelligence.") (current)
• 13:55, 5 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+71)‎ . . N Fixed interval ‎ (Created page with "When something is reinforced after every n^th amount of time.") (current)
• 13:50, 5 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+391)‎ . . N Morpheme ‎ (Created page with "In linguistics, a morpheme is the smallest semantically meaningful unit in a language. The field of study dedicated to morphemes is called morphology. A morpheme is not identical...") (current)
• 16:52, 4 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+578)‎ . . N Language acquisition device ‎ (Created page with "The Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a postulated "organ" of the brain that is supposed to function as a congenital device in language acquisition. First proposed by Noam Cho...") (current)
• 16:37, 4 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+38)‎ . . N Hashimoto hashimoto's thyroiditis ‎ (Redirected page to Hashimoto's thyroiditis) (current)
• 16:29, 4 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+1,914)‎ . . N Confirmation bias ‎ (Created page with "Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses. People display this bias ...") (current)
• 16:27, 4 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+376)‎ . . N Aptitude ‎ (Created page with "An aptitude is a component of a competency to do a certain kind of work at a certain level, which can also be considered "talent". Aptitudes may be physical or mental. Aptitude i...") (current)
• 16:25, 4 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+621)‎ . . N Codeine ‎ (Created page with "Codeine or 3-methylmorphine (a natural isomer of methylated morphine, the other being the semi-synthetic 6-methylmorphine) is an opiate used for its analgesic, antitussive, and a...") (current)
• 21:31, 3 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+78)‎ . . N Teratogen ‎ (Created page with "A teratogen is a chemical that is capable of causing deformities in an embryo.") (current)
• 18:01, 3 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (-78)‎ . . Abiogenesis ‎ (current)
• 18:00, 3 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,200)‎ . . N Abiogenesis ‎ (Created page with "Abiogenesis (pronounced /ˌeɪbaɪ.ɵˈdʒɛnɨsɪs/ ay-by-oh-jen-ə-siss[1]) or biopoiesis is the study of how biological life could arise from inorganic matter through natural ...")
• 12:31, 3 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+176)‎ . . Heritability ‎
• 12:29, 3 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+918)‎ . . N Hallucination ‎ (Created page with "A hallucination, in the broadest sense of the word, is a perception in the absence of a stimulus. In a stricter sense, hallucinations are defined as perceptions in a conscious an...") (current)
• 12:28, 3 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+311)‎ . . N Major depressive disorder ‎ (Created page with "Depression may be described as feeling sad, blue, unhappy, miserable, or down in the dumps. Most of us feel this way at one time or another for short periods. True clinical depr...")
• 12:27, 3 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+127)‎ . . N Panic disorder ‎ (Created page with "Panic disorder is a type of anxiety disorder in which you have repeated attacks of intense fear that something bad will happen.")
• 12:27, 3 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+288)‎ . . N Seasonal affective disorder ‎ (Created page with "SAD may begin during the teen years or in adulthood. Like other forms of depression, it occurs more often in women than in men. People who live in places with long winter nights...")
• 12:26, 3 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+255)‎ . . N Preparedness hypothesis ‎ (Created page with "The preparedness hypothesis is that the knowledge that prepares people to learn effectively can be different from the knowledge that allows people to perform effectively, and tha...") (current)
• 12:22, 3 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+157)‎ . . N Hypochondriasis ‎ (Created page with "Hypochondria is a belief that physical symptoms are signs of a serious illness, even when there is no medical evidence to support the presence of an illness.") (current)
• 12:20, 3 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,557)‎ . . N Dissociative identity disorder ‎ (Created page with "Dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder) is an effect of severe trauma during early childhood, usually extreme, repetitive physical, sex...") (current)
• 12:18, 3 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+752)‎ . . N Cognitive-behaviorist ‎ (Created page with "Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a psychotherapeutic approach that addresses dysfunctional emotions, behaviors, and cognitions through a goal-oriented, systematic process. T...") (current)
• 12:16, 3 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+842)‎ . . N Antidepressant ‎ (Created page with "An antidepressant is a psychiatric medication used to alleviate mood disorders, such as major depression and dysthymia and anxiety disorders such as social anxiety disorder. Acco...")
• 12:16, 3 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+196)‎ . . N Bipolar disorder ‎ (Created page with "Bipolar disorder is a condition in which people go back and forth between periods of a very good or irritable mood and depression. The "mood swings" between mania and depression ...") (current)
• 12:15, 3 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,056)‎ . . N Clozapine ‎ (Created page with "Clozapine is an atypical antipsychotic medication used in the treatment of schizophrenia, and is also used off-label in the treatment of bipolar disorder. In 2005 three pharmaceu...") (current)
• 12:14, 3 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+300)‎ . . N Anorexia nervosa ‎ (Created page with "Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that makes people lose more weight than is considered healthy for their age and height. Persons with this disorder may have an intense fea...")
• 12:13, 3 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+300)‎ . . N Bulimia ‎ (Created page with "Bulimia is an illness in which a person binges on food or has regular episodes of overeating and feels a loss of control. The person then uses different methods -- such as vomiti...") (current)
• 12:13, 3 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+550)‎ . . N Laxative ‎ (Created page with "Laxatives (purgatives, aperients) are foods, compounds, or drugs taken to loosen the stool, most often taken to treat constipation. Certain stimulant, lubricant, and saline laxat...") (current)
• 22:05, 2 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,489)‎ . . Prodrug ‎ (current)
• 22:04, 2 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+1,647)‎ . . N Prodrug ‎ (Created page with "A prodrug is a pharmacological substance (drug) administered in an inactive (or significantly less active) form. Once administered, the prodrug is metabolised in vivo into an act...")

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