Hi everyone my name is Micarline J. I am a student at Ahuntsic College and currently I am studying Social Science, more precisely in Psychology. College is a great bridge between high school and university, in there we learn how to be more responsible and efficient in learning what we really want and really love and for some of us who can be lost in what the really want to do it helps us find our way in life. I as a student I think I found mine, and I really excited for the future (university and gaining more experiences), and that exactly why I will talk in this page about psychology vocabulary. I think it will help a lot of you guys who have questions about this field (including myself, learning every day and every time is always good).
Attention
noun
Is the behavioural and cognitive process of selectively concentrating on a discrete aspect of information, whether considered subjective or objective, while ignoring other perceivable information.
en: Attention
Attitude
noun
In psychology, attitude is a psychological construct, a mental and emotional entity that inheres in, or characterized a person.
en: Attitude
Behavioural science
noun
A science (as Psychology, Sociology, or Anthropology) that deals with human action and seeks to generalize about human behaviour in society.
Cognition
noun
Refers to "the mental action or progress of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thoughts, experience, and the senses".
en: Cognitive
Cognitive science
noun
It examines the nature, tasks, and the functions of cognition (in a broad sense). Cognitive scientists study intelligence and behavior, with a focus on how nervous systems represent, process, and y]transform information. Mental faculties of concern to cognitive scientists include language, perception, memory, attention, reasoning, and emotion.
en: Cognitivisme
Emotion
noun
Biological states associated with all the nerve systems brought on by neuropsychological changes variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioural responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure.
en: Émotion
Family resilience
noun
The concept of individual psychological resilience which originates from work with children focusing on what helped them become resilient in the face of adverts.
en: Résilience familiale
Humanistic psychology
noun
The humanistic approach sought to glimpse the person, not just fragmented parts of the personality or isolated cognition. Humanism focused on uniquely human issues, such as free will, personal growth, self-actualization, self-identity, aloneness, death, freedom, and meaning. It emphasized subjective meaning, rejection of determinism and concern for positive growth rather than pathology.
en: Humanisme
Intelligence
noun
Has been defined in many ways: the capacity for the logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. More generally, it can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.
Example: An eminent man of intelligence.
en: Intelligence
Interpersonal relationship
noun
Involve social associations, connections, or affiliations between two or more people. Interpersonal relationships vary in their degree of intimacy or self-disclosure, but also in their duration, in their reciprocity and in their power distribution, to name only a few dimensions.
Example: Interpersonal relationships can be with friends, colleagues, family members or romantic partner.
en: Relation interpersonnelle
Introspection
noun
The examination of one’s own conscious thoughts and feelings. In psychology, the process of introspection relies on the observation of one’s mental state, while in a spiritual context it may refer to the examination of one’s soul.
Example: Quiet introspection can be extremely valuable.
en: Introspection
Motivation
noun
A reason for actions, willingness, and goals. Motivation is derived from the word motive, or a need that requires satisfaction. These needs, wants, or desires may be acquired through influence of culture, society, lifestyle, or may be generally inmate. Motivation results from the interaction of both conscious and unconscious factors.
Example: I found the motivation to go to the gym.
en: Motivation
Perception
noun
The organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.
Example: Recognizing sensory information, such as sound and smells, are part of perception.
en: Perception
Psychiatrist
noun
A medical practitioner specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness.
en: Psychiatre
Psychoanalysis
noun
is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques used in study the unconscious mind, which together from a method of treatment for mental disorders.
Example: Don’t try to psychoanalyze her, just listen to her.
en: Psychanalyse
Psychological resilience
noun
The ability to mentally or emotionally cope with a crisis or to return the pre-crisis status quickly.
en: Résilience
Psychologist
noun
An expert or specialist in psychology.
en: Psychologue
Psychology
noun
The scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behaviors in a given context.
en: Psychologie
Repression
noun
The psychological attempt to direct one’s own desires and impulses toward pleasurable instincts by excluding them from one’s consciousness and holding or subduing them in the unconscious. According to psychoanalytic theory, repression plays a major role in many mental illnesses, and in the psyche of the average person.
Example: The repression of anger can be positively harmful.
en: Répression
Stereotype
noun
In social psychology, a stereotype is an over-generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about every person of particular group.
