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AP Psychology

A very easy class that assholes take to pretend they're smart because they take the one honors class that doesn't require any effort to pass if you can memorize your old teacher's anecdotes about how a hypnotized bus driver remembered a license plate number. The teacher will usually not even touch the chapters on neurology, cognition, memory and intelligence because she's lazy, and thus all the students who made 97s in the class by memorzing definitions make 2s on the AP exam because the teacher didn't tell them who BF Skinner is.
Take AP Psychology if you enjoy watching episodes of Frasier and movies where some character has some mental disorder everyday and passing it off as an AP class
by peanutbutterninja May 17, 2008
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psychology

A religion that has risen up in the past century to define "proper behavior" as the influence of Christianity has waned.

Like other religions, it has little scientific support, but makes bold pronouncements about who is "good" and who is "bad."

Its sacred texts include the Diagnostics and Statistics manual as well as works by Rogers, Freud, Beck and others.

Cultish mind control behavior can be found in some practitioners who will attempt to keep "clients" in harmful therapy by convincing them that "you have to feel worse to feel better" or "your resistance represents your unwillingness to face your problems."
Client: "I have been in therapy for four years now, but I'm still depressed and obsessive compulsive. I don't think this psychology is working."

Psychologist: "I sense that you are very frustrated. However, clearly, we just have not yet uncovered the root of the problem yet."
by MurdochT April 18, 2010
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Psychology

is generally defined as the science of behavior and mental processes and the application of the resulting findings to the solution of problems.

The word thus simultaneously refers to a science (involving the study of the behavior of humans and animals) and to various interventions (treatments and therapies) in the mental processes and behavioral patterns of people. It is a branch of science that studies the cognitive, perceptual, and behavioural characteristics of human beings. The "how and why" of our behavior.
"To cause an organism to respond in a specific manner to a conditioned stimulus in the absence of an unconditioned stimulus."
by hoffman June 29, 2005
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reverse psychology

a technique of convincing a person that they will not succeed in hopes that it will spur them to succeed; a technique employing pessimism in order to effect a positive outcome
the man used reverse psychology to motivate the girl to better her life
by d lokkkk April 27, 2006
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Inverse Psychology

It is a form of reverse psychology, except the persons mind can't figure out what it means but you soul can.
if a lie is a lie then the lie must be the truth but the truth must be a lie and the lie must be the truth, etc. this is a form of Inverse Psychology
by JasonCubed132 June 4, 2015
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IB Psychology with Mrs. Horihan

One does not simply RETRIEVE a study case for an important SAR. However, "arousal" will be stored in long-term memory forever.
Mrs: Horihan: After 3 hours grading your SARs, I thought I was going crazy...
Jan: AROUSAL
Mrs: Horihan: Where is your 'application' part?
Jan: AROUSAL
Calum: (looks directly to the camera) that's what we call 'IB Psychology with Mrs. Horihan'.
by IBPsyStudent March 13, 2018
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