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Thanatos refers to instinctual drive toward death, leading to aggressive actionst; the human tendency towards aggression, stagnation, and destruction, as theorized by Freud.

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Deutsch: Danke / Español: Gracias / Português: Obrigado / Français: Merci / Italian: Grazie

Thank you in the psychology context refers to the expression of gratitude, which is a powerful social and emotional phenomenon. It involves acknowledging someone else's Kindness, help, or effort, and it plays a crucial role in human interactions and mental well-being.

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The "graying” of America refers to a term designating the fact that older adults are a growing portion of the U.S. population

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- The Beck Depression Inventory : The Beck Depression Inventory refers to test to measure depression.

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Deutsch: Die großen Fünf / Español: Los Cinco Grandes / Português: Os Cinco Grandes / Français: Les Cinq Grands / Italian: I Cinque Grandi

The Big Five refers to a widely accepted model in psychology that describes five major dimensions of human personality. These dimensions are Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. The model is often abbreviated as OCEAN or CANOE.

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Englisch: The Basic Models of Psychology, Applied to Sports
The Cognitive Model states that our problems can be traced to our thinking processes.

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The decision tree is a set of five (5) steps that must be completed before an individual will intervene in an emergency situation

The Dis-Identification Technique (DIT) (or "Who Am I?"-Technique) leads to self-management and thus to the ability to manage others. This technique is very useful in restructuring your personality and even to attain realization.

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