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  2. Repetition compulsion - Wikipedia

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    Repetition compulsion is the unconscious tendency of a person to repeat a traumatic event or its circumstances. This may take the form of symbolically or literally re-enacting the event, or putting oneself in situations where the event is likely to occur again.

  3. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    The "up" in "climb up" is not always redundant, as in the example "He climbed up and then fell down the mountain." Many other examples of pleonasm are redundant only if the speaker's knowledge is taken into account. For example, most English speakers would agree that "tuna fish" is redundant because tuna is a kind of fish.

  4. Perseveration - Wikipedia

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    The primary definition of perseveration in biology and clinical psychiatry involves some form of response repetition or the inability to undertake set shifting (changing of goals, tasks or activities) as required, and is usually evidenced by behaviours such as words and gestures continuing to be repeated despite absence or cessation of a stimulus.

  5. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    redundant laid off from employment, usu. because no longer needed ("The company made 100 workers redundant") (US: laid off) unnecessary; repetitive backup; auxiliary system regular normal, customary following a uniform pattern in space or time (of a geometric shape) having equal sides and angles frequent one who frequents a place

  6. Habit - Wikipedia

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    Good Habits Poster. A habit (or wont, as a humorous and formal term) is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously. [1]A 1903 paper in the American Journal of Psychology defined a "habit, from the standpoint of psychology, [as] a more or less fixed way of thinking, willing, or feeling acquired through previous repetition of a mental experience."

  7. Body-focused repetitive behavior - Wikipedia

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    Body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB) is an umbrella name for impulse control [1] behaviors involving compulsively damaging one's physical appearance or causing physical injury. [2] Body-focused repetitive behavior disorders (BFRBDs) in ICD-11 is in development. [3] BFRB disorders are currently estimated to be under the obsessive-compulsive ...

  8. Rumination (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the Goal Progress Theory, rumination is conceptualized not as a reaction to a mood state, but as a "response to failure to progress satisfactorily towards a goal". [3] According to multiple studies, rumination is a mechanism that develops and sustains psychopathological conditions such as anxiety, depression, and other negative ...

  9. Stimming - Wikipedia

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    Stimming is a type of restricted and repetitive behavior (RRB). [3] Such behaviors (also scientifically known as " stereotypies ") are found to some degree in all people, but is especially intense and frequent in those with developmental disabilities , attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or autism . [ 2 ]