Students can get easily overwhelmed by all the complex terms in their program. I certainly relate to them because in my field of study, you could get lost in most of the explanations if the words are uncommon to you. Which is why a glossary might be the greatest way to get a proper definition in a short time. It is like a brief dictionary. I created a glossary of 25 terms for the Psychology program to help students in my field of study. I chose important words to acknowledge because they will come back and it is better to get use to it.
anxiety
noun
An intense emotional response caused by the preconscious recognition that a repressed conflict is about to emerge into consciousness.
Behaviorism
noun
The theory that human and animal behavior can be exlplained in terms of conditionin, without appeal to thoughts or feelings, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior patterns.
Behavioural Approach
nouns
The behavioral approach is based on the concept of explaining behavior through observation, and the belief that our environment is what causes us to behave differently or suffer illnesses.
cerebral dominance
nouns
The normal tendency for one half of the brain, usually the left cerebral hemisphere in right-handed people, to exercise more control over certain functions than the other.
classical conditioning
nouns
A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired.
clinical psychologist
nouns
A mental health professional with highly specialized training in the diagnosis and psychological treatment of mental illness.
cognition
noun
The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
cognitive dissonance
noun
A condition of conflict or anxiety resulting from an inconsistency between one's beliefs and one's actions, such as opposing the slaughter of animals and eating meat.
dependence
noun
The real need of the organism, or something that individual can not provide for themselves.
Evolutionary Psychology
noun
An approach in the social and natural sciences that examines psychological traits such as memory, perception and language from a modern evolutionary perspective.
experimental method
noun
The experimental method is a scientific method of inquiry that emphasizes the control observation and measurement of variables in research.
flooding
noun
A therapy for phobias in which clients are exposed, with their permission, to the stimuli most frightening to them.
Humanistic Psychology
noun
A psychological perspective that emphasizes the study of the whole person and stresses the importance of growth and self-actualization.
hypermnesia
noun
Exceptionally exact or vivid memory, especially as associated with certain mental illnesses.
illness
noun
A disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind.
mental distress
noun
A range of symptoms and experiences of a person's internal life that are commonly held to be troubling, confusing or out of the ordinary.
neurosis
noun
A class of functional disorders involving distress but either delusions nor hallucinations, whereby behavior is not outside socially acceptable norms.
placebo
noun
A simulated or otherwise medically ineffectual treatment for a disease or another medical condition intended to deceive the recipient.
prosopagnosia
noun
A disorder of impaired face perception.
Psychoanalysis
noun
A method of studying in the mind and treating mental and emotional disorders based on investigating the role of the unconscious mind.
psychosis
noun
A severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.
pygmalion effect
noun
The phenomenon in which the greater the expectation placed upon people, the better they perform.
retrograde amnesia
noun
Amnesia caused by a trauma such as concussion, in which the memory loss relates to material learnt before the trauma.
stimulus
noun
Any phenomenon that causes a reaction or response in an organism.
unconscious
noun
The part of the mind that is inaccessible to the conscious mind but that affects behavior and emotions.
