My name is Stephanie La France, it is my first session in Social Sciences. This glossary could be for students or curious people about words related to psychology field. This glossary can assist to understand the feature of the word to really know what it is actually. I used the website Dictionary.com to find the 10 definitions that are related to the psychology field that I select in the texts that I wrote in the English course. I would like to know if it were profitable to you to know the definitions that I inserted on my glossary.
Education
Noun
The act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
Example: As a result student debt has become, one of the biggest concerns facing students in higher education.
fr: Éducation
Health
Noun
The general condition of the body or mind with reference to soundness and vigor.
Example: However, it is now more common to use a biomedical approach to mental health problems when treating someone such as the Wolf-Man, rather than a psychoanalytic model.
This can be seen in the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM-IV) by many mental health practitioners today.
fr: Santé
Hospital
Noun
An institution in which sick or injured persons are given medical or surgical treatment.
Example: Further beneficial outcomes from Bowlby's findings are applied to society, such as improvements in institutionalized care, where there is now easier access for parents to visit their child when in hospital, and a general greater awareness of children's needs.
fr: Hôpital
Investigation
Noun
A searching inquiry for ascertaining facts; detailed or careful examination.
Example: This evidence shows that Bowlby's theory of attachment has been the subject of further investigation for over 40 years, representing a studiously deliberated theory, which stands up to the most rigorous dissection.
fr: Investiguer
Mental health
Noun
1. Psychological well-being and satisfactory adjustment to society and the ordinary demands of life.
Example: However, it is now more common to use a biomedical approach to mental health problems when treating someone such as the Wolf-Man, rather than a psychoanalytic model.
This can be seen in the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM-IV) by many mental health practitioners today.
fr: Santé mentale
Mind
Noun
1. (In a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process those reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.
2. The totality of conscious and unconscious mental processes and activities.
Example: Since each mind has a limited capacity for memes, there is considerable competition among memes for entry into as many minds as possible (Ball, 1984).
Blackmore claims that imitation, as the primary mechanism by which memes replicate themselves, can be taken as the basis of a major theory of the evolution of the human mind and even of what it means to be a conscious self.
fr: Esprit
Personality
Noun
1. The sum totaled of the physical, mental, emotional, and social characteristics of an individual.
2. The organized pattern of behavioral characteristics of the individual.
Example: Personality and Social Development; Attachment.
fr: Personnalité
Psychological
Adjective
1. Of or relating to psychology.
2. Pertaining to the mind or to mental phenomena as the subject matter of psychology.
3. Of, pertaining to, dealing with, or affecting the mind, especially as a function of awareness, feeling, or motivation
Example: Genes, memes, rhymes: Conscious poetic deviation in linguistic, psychological and evolutionary theory.
fr: Psychologique
Resource
Noun
Capability in dealing with a situation or in meeting difficulties:
Example: Sarasota, FL: Professional resource Exchange.
fr: Ressource
Science
Noun
1. A branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws.
3. Systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.
4. Any of the branches of natural or physical science.
5. Systematized knowledge in general.
6. Knowledge, as of facts or principles; knowledge gained by systematic study.
7. A particular branch of knowledge.
Example: Virus of the mind: the new science of the meme.
Review: Darwinising culture: The status of memetics as a science.
