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Stereotyped behaviors

Stereotyped behaviors refer to preconceived and relatively fixed impressions of an individual based on superficial characteristics or over-generalizations of traits observed in some people.

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Stereotyped Movements

Stereotyped Movements refer to repetitive, seemingly driven, and non-functional motor behaviour.

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Stereotypic movement disorder

Stereotypic movement disorder refers to a disorder in which the individual voluntarily repeats nonfunctional behaviors, such as rocking or head-banging, that can be damaging to his or her physical well-being.

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Stereotyping

Stereotyping refers to an assumption that all members of a group are the same.

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Stereotypy

Stereotypy refer to purposeless repetitive movements often seemingly driven and non-functional, like folding a piece of paper along the same crease until it disintegrates.

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Sterilization

Deutsch: Sterilisation / Español: Esterilización / Português: Esterilização / Français: Stérilisation / Italian: Sterilizzazione

Sterilization in the psychology context typically refers to a medical procedure that permanently prevents an individual from being able to reproduce. This term carries significant psychological, social, and ethical implications, especially when considering historical instances of involuntary sterilization and its impact on mental health and identity.

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Sternberg's Triarchic Theory

Sternberg's Triarchic Theory refers to Robert J Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence consisting of three (3) subtheories:

(1) the componential subtheory which outlines the structures and mechanisms that underlie intelligent behavior categorized as metacognitive, performance, or knowledge acquistion components ,

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Steroid hormone

Steroid hormone refers a hormone that contains four (4) carbon rings

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