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Psychological set is an individual’s knowledge, attitudes, expectations, and other thoughts about an object or event, such as a drug
Psychological system refers to a system which includes those mental processes central to the person's ability to make meaning of experiences and take action. Emotion, memory and perception, problem solving, language, symbolic abilities, and orientation to the future all require the use of psychological processes. The psychological system provides the resources for processing information and navigating reality.
Psychological test is defined as a standardized measure of a sample of a person's behavior. Psychological test refers to a device for measuring characteristics of human beings that pertain to overt (observable) and covert (intra-individual) behavior. A Psychological test measures past, present, or future human behavior.
Psychological theories are theories which are derived from the Behavioral sciences and which focus on the individual as the unit of analysis. Psychological theories place the locus of crime causation within the personality of the individual offender. Likewise, Psychological theories are theories that view mental disorders as caused by psychological processes, such as beliefs, thinking styles, and coping styles
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