This glossary is a list of a couple of words that I learned through my first session in Specialized Education. All the words are psychology related terms that we need to know and understand to make good interventions. I made this glossary to help me memorize them, and to help you who is reading it, understand every one of them. I think it's important to use the proper vocabulary when you talk about psychology or specific disorders. You'll see, you will impress your friends with your knowledge in this particular field in your next conversation!
Sources:
https://www.wikipedia.org/
https://www.lexico.com/?search_filter=dictionary
https://medium.com/@Jennifer_Piper/mislabeled-mistreated-and-misunderstood-cadee99e330
Walker, Nicholas. Actively Engaged Online. 2015. Publications Bokomaru. (p.331 to p.339)
anorexia
noun
A psychiatric disorder characterized by an unrealistic fear of weight gain, self-starvation, and conspicuous distortion of body image.
anxiety
noun
An intense emotional response caused by the preconscious recognition that a repressed conflict is about to emerge into consciousness.
autodidact
noun
A self-taught person.
Behaviorism
noun
The theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feeling, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior patterns.
bipolar disorder
noun
A mental illness that brings severe high and low moods and changes in sleep, energy, thinking, and behavior.
butterfly effect
noun
Notion that an effect or a trivial thing can have serious consequences if it causes an imbalance and causes other changes that create a big upheaval.
centration
noun
The tendancy to focus on only one aspect of a situation, problem or object.
cognition
noun
The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
cognitive bias
noun
A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input.
defense mechanism
noun
In psychoanalytic theory, a defence mechanism is an unconscious psychological mechanism that reduces anxiety arising from unacceptable or potentially harmful stimuli.
dependance
noun
The real need of the organism, or something that individuals can not provide for themselves.
discrimination
noun
Treating people less fairly because they belong to a different group.
dyslexia
noun
A general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, but that do not affect general intelligence.
intervention
noun
Any measure whose purpose is to improve health or alter the course of disease.
mental health
noun
Psychological well-being and satisfactory adjustment to society and to the ordinary demands of life.
paranoia
noun
A mental condition characterized by delusions of persecutions, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance, typically elaborated into an organized system.
phobia
noun
An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.
psychosis
noun
A severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.
resilience
noun
Is an individual's tendency to cope with stress and adversity.
self-esteem
noun
Confidence in one's own worth or abilities; self-respect.
stereotype
noun
Believing that people of a certain group, race or religion all have the same characteristics when they don't.
stimulus
noun
Any phenomenon that causes a reaction or response in an organism.