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  2. Internal working model of attachment - Wikipedia

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    However, when Bowlby developed his attachment theory, cognitive psychology was still at its beginning. Only in 1967, Neisser proposed a theory of mental representation based on schemas which later led to the development of schema theory. It was said that these scripts might be the base of the structure of internal working models. [5]

  3. Need for power - Wikipedia

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    Need for power (nPow) is a term that was popularized by psychologist David McClelland in 1961. McClelland's thinking was influenced by the pioneering work of Henry Murray , who first identified underlying psychological human needs and motivational processes (1938).

  4. File:Introduction to Psychology.pdf - Wikipedia

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  5. Self-regulation theory - Wikipedia

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    According to Schunk (2012), Lev Vygotsky who was a Russian psychologist and was a major influence on the rise of constructivism, believed that self-regulation involves the coordination of cognitive processes such as planning, synthesizing and formulating concepts (Henderson & Cunningham, 1994); however, such coordination does not proceed independently of the individual's social environment and ...

  6. Murray's system of needs - Wikipedia

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    In 1938, the American psychologist Henry Murray developed a system of needs as part of his theory of personality, which he named personology.Murray argued that everyone had a set of universal basic needs, with individual differences among these needs leading to the uniqueness of personality through varying dispositional tendencies for each need; in other words, a specific need is more ...

  7. Stevens's power law - Wikipedia

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    Stevens' power law is an empirical relationship in psychophysics between an increased intensity or strength in a physical stimulus and the perceived magnitude increase in the sensation created by the stimulus.

  8. Power: A New Social Analysis - Wikipedia

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    Among the psychological types of influence, we have a distinction between "traditional, naked, and revolutionary power". (Naked power, as noted earlier, is the use of coercion without any pretense to legitimacy.) By "traditional power", Russell has in mind the ways in which people will appeal to the force of habit to justify a political regime ...

  9. Positive mental attitude - Wikipedia

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    Positive mental attitude (PMA) is a concept first introduced in 1937 by Napoleon Hill in the book Think and Grow Rich.The book never actually uses the term, but discusses the importance of positive thinking as a contributing factor of success. [1]