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Negative self-statements

Negative self -statements refer to self-critical thoughts that increase anxiety and lower performance.

Negative self-talk

Deutsch: Negative Selbstgespräche, Español: Autodiálogo negativo, Português: Autoconversa negativa, Français: Discours intérieur négatif, Italiano: Dialogo interiore negativo

Negative self-talk in psychology refers to an individual's internal monologue or voice that is critical, pessimistic, and often catastrophizing. It involves habitual, automatic thoughts that undermine self-esteem, impair mood, and often distort reality by focusing only on the negative aspects of a situation.

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Negative sensations

Negative sensations is a term which according to Fechner refer to sensations that occur below the absolute threshold and are therefore below the level of awareness.

Negative state relief theory

Negative state relief theory refers to the proposition that people help others in order to relieve their own distress

Negative symptom

negative symptom refers to less outgoing symptom, such as flat affect (toneless speech, vacant gaze) or poor speech, displayed by some people with Schizophrenia.

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Negative symptoms

Negative symptoms refer to the symptoms of schizophrenia, including affective flattening, alogia, avolition, and anhedonia, that involve functioning below the level of normal behavior. Negative symptoms are also known as second-rank symptoms in schizophrenia; those characteristics that are notably absent in the affected person but are usually present in a person’s experience, such as appropriate self care, full range of affect

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Negative symptoms in schizophrenia

Negative symptoms in schizophrenia deficits in functioning that indicate the absence of a capacity present in normal people, such as affective flattening which is also called Type II symptoms

Negative transfer

Negative transfer is when the mastery of one task conflicts with learning or performing another. Negative transfer occurs when solving an earlier problem makes it harder to solve a later one.

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