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A gram-negative diplococcus bacterium that causes gonorrhea.  

In collective bargaining, a process of joint decision making involving representatives of the management of an organization and representatives of the workers in that organization. Decisions are made with respect to salary, working conditions, fringe benefits, and the like. Most often, such decisions require the ratification of those being represented.  

Transfer in which practice in one task interferes with the learning of another task, positive transfer.  

Behavioral deficits such as flat affect or apathy, esp. in schizophrenia. Manifestations of schizophrenia distinguished by the lack or eradication of specific behaviors.  

The lowering phase of weight lifting.  

A relationship in which increases in the independent variable are associated with decreases in the dependent variable negative correlation, positive relationship.  

Punishment designed to reduce the frequency of negative behavior.  

The dynamics and standards of a group that limit or inhibit productivity.  

The process of adopting forms of behavior opposite to those that are regarded as desirable by parents, most adults, and society in general.  

An action that produces a consequence that stops or reverses the action, feedback system, positive feedback. A situation in which the result of a process represses the process which caused it.